Puerto Rico Census Project, 1910

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

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“…We use PREHCO (Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions) data base [ 51 ]. PREHCO is a two-wave 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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Impacts of the 1918 flu on survivors' nutritional status: A double quasi-natural experiment

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“…We use PREHCO (Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions) data base (45) . PREHCO is a two-wave 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

Palloni

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AP) ¶These authors contributed equally to this work. ABSTRACTA 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, those of the devastation left by an earthquake-tsunami that struck the island in 1918, and those associated with the joint occurrence of these events. We use geographic variation to identify the effects of the quake and timing of birth variation to identify those of the flu. In addition, we use markers of nutritional status gathered in a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 75 and older in 2002. This unique data set enables to make two distinct contributions. First, unlike most fetal-origins research that singles out early nutritional status as a determinant of adult health, we test the hypothesis that the 1918 flu had deleterious effects on the nutritional status on adult survivors who at the time of the flu were in utero or infants. Second, and unlike most research on the effects of the flu, we focus on markers of nutritional status set when the adult survivors were children or adolescents. We find that estimates of effects of the pandemic are sizeable primarily among females and among those who, in addition to the flu, were exposed to the earthquake-tsunami. We argue that these findings constitute empirical evidence supporting the conjecture that effects of the 1918 flu alone and the combined effects of the flu and the earthquake are associated not just with damage experienced during the fetal period but also postnatally.

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Labor Coercion and the Accumulation of Human Capital

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Morrow

2013

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Puerto Rico Census Project, 1910

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

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

Impacts of the 1918 flu on survivors’ nutritional status: a double quasi-natural experiment

Labor Coercion and the Accumulation of Human Capital

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