Severe Prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter

JEL classification: I10; J13. ; Data availability: The data that has been used is confidential. ; Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X24000248?via%3Dihub#appSB . ; This paper investigates health impacts at the end of adolescence 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 br... Mehr ...