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Title: Three Empirical Essays on the Long-Run Consequences of Early-Life Living Conditions
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Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of early-life living conditions using micro-datasets from three countries. The employed empirical strategies aim to identify causal relationships between early-life living conditions and the outcomes of interest. Chapter 1 analyzes effects of early-life exposure to the Greek 1941/2 famine on school and labor-market performance. I find famine exposure in the first and second years of life to be associated with lower educational attainment in four waves of the Greek decennial census between 1971 and 2001. Chapter 2 estimates long-run effects of fetal exposure to the 1918-19 influenza pandemic for Switzerland. Using data from the 1970 Swiss census, I find that the male 1919 cohort that had a strongly increased likelihood of fetal exposure to the pandemic performs significantly worse in terms of educational attainment and has a lower chance of marriage than the surrounding cohorts. Chapter 3 examines mid-run effects of early childhood exposure to a large-scale Indonesian midwife placement program. Using panel data from the 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2007 waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, I find improvements in height-for-age and cognitive skill for adolescents with exposure to the program during infancy.
Url: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/167343/1/ifo-Beitraege-Wifo-44.pdf
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Authors: Neelsen, Sven
Publisher: Ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Housing and Segregation
Countries: United States