Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing the previously and subsequently well-nourished Dutch population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the cohorts born in the years surrounding WWII with newly digitised historical records on calories and nutrient composition of t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
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London: Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / I10 / J13 / Health / Fetal Origins Hypothesis / Famine / Prenatal Exposure |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27077827 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/249691 |