| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP9650
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| DP9650 Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality |
| Gerard Van den Berg
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| 发表日期 | 2013-09-15
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915--1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the death cause. The birth weight distribution does not vary over the business cycle. The association between birth weight (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10, varies with birth weight and the cycle at birth. But the long-run effects of early-life conditions appear to mostly reflect direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long-run effects are not mitigated by education. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
; Economic History
; Labour Economics
; Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Business cycle
Cardiovascular disease
Cause of death
Cognitive ability
Developmental origins
Education
Fetal programming
Genetic determinants
Health
Life course
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9650
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538486
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Gerard Van den Berg. DP9650 Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality. 2013.
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