Multigenerational Effects of Early Life Health Shocks

Justin Cook (), Jason Fletcher and Angela Forgues

No 25377, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

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Date: 2018-12
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Published as C. Justin Cook & Jason M. Fletcher & Angela Forgues, 2019. "Multigenerational Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks," Demography, vol 56(5), pages 1855-1874.

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