Empirical essays on the long-term consequences of early infant conditions for health, productivity, and family formation

Walliczek, Katharina

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/46604
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-466049
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2017
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Berg, Gerard van den
Date of oral examination:	1 December 2017
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics) School of Law and Economics > Alexander v. Humboldt Professor in Econometrics and Empirical Economics (van den Berg 2009-2016)
Subject:	330 Economics
Subject headings (SWD):	Arbeitsproduktivität , Gesundheit , Gesundheitsökonomie , Familiengründung , Lebensbedingungen , Weltkrieg , Hunger , Stress , Sozioökonomisches Panel
Keywords (English):	early life conditions , health economics , WWII , malnutrition , bombings , Barker hypothesis , fetal programming , productivity , pension , family formation , height , marriage , hypertension , life satisfaction , SOEP , difference-in-differences
Abstract:	Plenty of evidence shows that living conditions during pregnancy and infancy shape long-term well-being, partly for multiple generations. External changes in the living conditions for children can be found in a unique setting in modern history: the negative consequences of National-Socialism and the Second World War in German territory. I compile a data set which joins individual information on health, social standing, and productivity with regional information on living conditions, making use of high regional and temporal variation. Applying various difference-in-differences estimations, I can draw conclusions on the association between early life hunger and stress and measures of well-being later in life, like general health, specific old-age diseases, satisfaction with life, and family life.