Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of EarlyLife Economic Conditions

Ruijun Hou, Samuel Baker, Stephanie von Hinke, Hans H. Sievertsen, Emil Sorensen and Nicolai Vitt

Bristol Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: We study the long-term health and human capital impacts of local economic conditions experienced during the first 1,000 days of life. We combine historical data on monthly unemployment rates in urban England and Wales from 1952 to 1967 with data from the UK Biobank on later-life outcomes. Leveraging variation in unemployment driven by national industry-specific shocks weighted by industry’s importance in each area, we find no evidence that small, common fluctuations in local economic conditions during the early life period affect health or human capital in older age.

Date: 2025-04-02
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