The benefits of intervention: birth weights in Basle 1912-1920

Joël Floris, Kaspar Staub and Ulrich Woitek

No 236, ECON - Working Papers from Department of Economics - University of Zurich

Abstract: To assess the impact of interventions on well-being during war time, we analyze data from the birth records at the university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased during the crisis years 1918 and 1919, but not for low and high SEP families. A potential explanation is access to food: while high SEP families could compensate for high prices, low SEP families received support, for which medium SEP families were not eligible.

Keywords: Birth weight; World War 1; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I18 N14 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10
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