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Title: Essays on Childhood Conditions and Adult Economic and Health Outcomes

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Using War Relocation Authority records linked to the Social Security Death Index, I investigate whether the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII affected the life spans of male internees who were incarcerated during early childhood. Using un-interned Japanese Hawaiians as a control group, difference-in-differences estimates suggest that internees incarcerated within the first four years of life died approximately two years earlier. Furthermore, the internees from low socioeconomic status families and internees incarcerated in cold climates drive almost the entire effect. Additionally, NCHS cause-of-death data suggest that early childhood incarceration increased the incidence of circulatory diseases by 7 percentage points. Data on Chinese Americans suggest that the identifying assumption is satisfied.

Url: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21156/4/etd_saavedra_April14.pdf

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Authors: Saavedra, Martin H.

Institution: University of Pittsburgh

Department: Economics

Advisor: Werner Troesken, Department

Degree: Ph.D

Publisher Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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