Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.03.001

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“…Sample size = 2,511; thereof famine-exposed at age 0-4: = 401; thereof treated/famine-exposed at age 6-16 = 189/561. For the famines we investigate in this study, there is no evidence for a drop in the sex ratio except for a small reduction in Greece (Cramer and Lumey, 2010;J€ urges, 2013;Neelsen and Stratmann, 2011). Significance for Wald estimator computed using a bootstrap (500 repetitions).…”

Section: Average Causal Long-run Effects Of Hunger Around Birthmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…As of then, the Red Cross provided assistance targeted mostly at young children in Athens (Neelsen and Stratmann, 2011). As of then, the Red Cross provided assistance targeted mostly at young children in Athens (Neelsen and Stratmann, 2011).…”

Section: The Greek Faminementioning

confidence: 99%

“…As of then, the Red Cross provided assistance targeted mostly at young children in Athens (Neelsen and Stratmann, 2011). The ending date is somewhat later than in Hionidou (2006) and somewhat earlier than in Neelsen and Stratmann (2011). Subsequently, the situation in most parts of Greece improved.…”

Section: The Greek Faminementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Food rations for pregnant mothers and babies were often relatively high and could be supplemented by direct food delivery (Dols and Van Arcken, 1946;Valaoras, 1946;Klatt, 1950;De Rooij et al, 2010;Neelsen and Stratmann, 2011). During the famines, different food support policies were used for different child age classes.…”

Section: Two-sample IV Estimationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Berg

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Schoch

2015

Econ J

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We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts exposed to various famines in the twentieth century. We use two-sample IV estimation to deal with imperfect recollection of conditions at very early stages of life. The estimated average causal effects may exceed famine effects by at least a factor three.During the past decade, the effect of early-life conditions on health outcomes late in life has become a focal point of research in economics, demography, epidemiology, biology and related fields. 1 Empirical studies use non-experimental data of real-life individuals and typically relate indicators of early-life conditions to outcomes of the same individuals at high ages. A major concern is that both:

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Section: Average Causal Long-run Effects Of Hunger Around Birthmentioning

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Section: The Greek Faminementioning

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

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Schoch

2015

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“…The nutritional situation returned to acceptable levels towards the end of 1942. Neelson and Stratman (2011) use Cohort Data to show that undernourishment of children who were 1 or 2 years old at the time of the famine had a significantly lower probability of being literate or to complete upper secondary education.…”

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The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe

Kesternich

Siflinger

Smith

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The Review of Economics and Statistics

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We investigate long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status and health of older individuals in Europe. We analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of SHARE in Europe in 2009. SHARELIFE provides detailed data on events in childhood during and after the war for over 20,000 individuals in 13 European countries. We construct several measures of war exposure—experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in local areas, and hunger periods. Exposure to war and more importantly to individual-level shocks caused by the war significantly predicts economic and health outcomes at older ages.

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Birth Weight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Birthweight and Academic Achievement in Childhood AbstractResearch has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using three waves of the PSID-CDS data over 1997-2009, we build on the literature by employing fetal growth rate as a proxy for nutritional intake in utero and propose a nested error-component two-stage least squares (NEC2SLS) estimator that draws on internal instruments from alternative dimensions of the multi-level panel data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in the sample, which comprises over 40 percent of the observations in our sample, as well as to obtain coefficient estimates for the time-invariant variables such as race and maternal education. This would not be feasible with the usual mother fixed effects estimation. We obtain modest but significant effects of fetal growth rate on math and reading scores, with the effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well-documented racial disparity in test scores.JEL-Code: C230, C260, I100, I140, J150.

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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine

Cited by 124 publications

References 42 publications

Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe

Birth Weight and Academic Achievement in Childhood

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