Puerto Rico Census Project, 1910

Palloni, Alberto; Winsborough, Halliman H.; Scarano, Francisco A.

doi:10.3886/icpsr04343.v1

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“…A recent analysis of ELSA and HRS confirms that results obtained with self reported hypertension and diabetes corresponds closely with those obtained from biomarkers (Banks et al, 2006). Similarly, a study of elicited symptoms for diabetes and circulatory illness confirms a high degree of correspondence with self reports for the PREHCO sample (Palloni and White, 2006). Finally, in a study of a large national sample of Mexican adults (ENSA) and comparable national sample of adults in the United States (NHANES) it was shown that SES gradients estimated using self reported diabetes and hypertension are remarkably similar to those obtained using biomarkers for both conditions (Wong et al, 2008).…”

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“…There is no reason to suspect that people who misreport early conditions are more (or less) likely to also misreport chronic illnesses. Indeed, in a preliminary report on the quality of reporting of the Puerto Rican Elderly study it is shown that variability in reporting of early conditions across two waves (which should be ideally nil) is unrelated to variability in reporting chronic illnesses (Palloni and Garcia, 2008)…”

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Effect of early conditions on disability among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean

2009

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Poor early conditions have been associated with increasing risks of some chronic diseases during adulthood. Since chronic illnesses are known as important risk factors for disability, it should be the case that poor early conditions are predictive of disability at older ages. In addition, recent literature suggests that poor early conditions may affect the risk of disability even in the absence of chronic illnesses. The aim of the study presented in the paper was to evaluate the magnitude of differentials in the risk of being disabled according to early conditions experienced by elderly populations in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and to identify the group of chronic illnesses responsible for it. We find that poor early conditions exert a strong influence on disability later in life by increasing both the risk of suffering disability-related chronic illnesses and the risks of suffering disabilities given the presence of chronic illnesses.

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Effect of early conditions on disability among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean

2009

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“…We use PREHCO (Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions) data base [51]. PREHCO is a twowave panel of the non-institutionalized Puerto Rican population aged 60 and over and their surviving spouses.…”

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Impacts of the 1918 flu on survivors' nutritional status: A double quasi-natural experiment

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Robust empirical evidence supports the idea that embryonic and, more generally, intrauterine disruptions induced by the 1918-flu pandemic had long-term consequences on adult health status and other conditions. In this paper we assess the 1918-flu long-term effects not just of in utero exposure but also during infancy and early childhood. A unique set of events that took place in Puerto Rico during 1918-1919 generated conditions of a "double quasi-natural experiment". We exploit these conditions to empirically identify effects of exposure to the 1918 flu pandemic and those of the devastation left by an earthquake-tsunami that struck the island in 1918. Because the earthquake-tsunami affected mostly the Western coast of the island whereas early (in utero and postnatal) exposure to the flu was restricted to those born in the interval 1917-1920, we use geographic variation to identify the effects of the quake and timing of birth variation to identify those of the flu. We benefit from availability of information on markers of nutritional status in a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 75 and older in 2002. We make two contributions. First, unlike most fetalorigins research that singles out early nutritional status as a determinant of adult health, we hypothesize that the 1918 flu damaged the nutritional status of adult survivors who, at the time of the flu, were in utero or infants. Second, we target markers of nutritional status largely set when the adult survivors were infants and young children. Estimates of effects of the pandemic are quite large mostly among females and those who were exposed to the earthquake-tsunami. Impacts of the flu in areas less affected by the earthquake are smaller but do vary by area flu severity. These findings constitute empirical evidence supporting the conjecture that effects of the 1918 flu and/or the earthquake are associated not just with disruption experienced during the fetal period but also postnatally.

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Puerto Rico Census Project, 1910

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Effect of early conditions on disability among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean

Effect of early conditions on disability among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean

Impacts of the 1918 flu on survivors' nutritional status: A double quasi-natural experiment

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