Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …

the Western Netherlands. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the cohorts …

maternity ward, I document a reduction in birth weights for children exposed in utero to the blackout, and an increase in the …

This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information … children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict … war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger …

This paper estimates the effect of economic shocks that affect families with young children on children's health … economy. Analyzing household survey data from Russia I find that children who were under the age of five and whose parents … were negatively affected during the early transition have poorer health in adolescence and are less likely to have …

Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically … to the deteriorating health of a parent tend to be short-lived and mostly manifest as temporary absences from work rather …