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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w25377
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource; illustrations (black and white)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3386/w25377
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
Description:
A large literature has documented links between harmful early life exposures and later life health and socioeconomic deficits. These studies, however, are typically unable to examine the possibility that these shocks are transmitted to the next generation. Our study traces the impacts of in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic on the outcomes of the children and grandchildren of those affected using representative survey data from the US. We find evidence of multigenerational effects on educational, economic, and health outcomes