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Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long‐Term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post‐1940 US Population

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D Almond - Journal of Political Economy, 2006 - JSTOR
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment for testing the fetal
origins hypothesis. The pandemic arrived unexpectedly in the fall of 1918 and had largely
subsided by January 1919, generating sharp predictions for long-term effects. Data from ...
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Human capital development before age five

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D Almond… - 2010 - nber.org
This chapter seeks to set out what Economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative
influences. We begin with a brief overview of the theory which illustrates that evidence of a ...
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Chernobyl's subclinical legacy: prenatal exposure to radioactive fallout and school outcomes in Sweden

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D Almond, L Edlund… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2009 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We use prenatal exposure to Chernobyl fallout in Sweden as a natural experiment
inducing variation in cognitive ability. Students born in regions of Sweden with higher fallout
performed worse in secondary school, in mathematics in particular. Damage is ...
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Long-term effects of the 1959-1961 China famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

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D Almond, L Edlund, H Li… - 2007 - nber.org
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese
famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that
fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic ...
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The 1918 influenza pandemic and subsequent health outcomes: an analysis of SIPP data

D Almond… - American Economic Review, 2005 - JSTOR
The fetal-origins hypothesis has recently achieved" textbook" status in medicine (eg,
Rudolph, 2003 and Warrell, 2003) and is drawing increasing attention from social scientists
(eg, Case, Fertig and Paxton, 2005; Currie and Moretti, 2005). The hypothesis holds that ...
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Son-biased sex ratios in the 2000 United States Census

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D Almond… - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract We document male-biased sex ratios among US-born children of Chinese, Korean,
and Asian Indian parents in the 2000 US Census. This male bias is particularly evident for
third children: If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%. By ...
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[PDF] The long-run and intergenerational impact of poor infant health: Evidence from cohorts born during the civil rights era

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D Almond… - University of California-Berkeley, mimeograph, 2006 - nber.org
ABSTRACT The 1960s witnessed the greatest reduction in the mortality rates of black infants
relative to white infants of the last 50 years. We use these dramatic relative changes in the
health of black birth cohorts to evaluate the long-run effects of early life health conditions. ...
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[BOOK] Does Low Birth Weight Matter?: Evidence from the US Population of Twin Births

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DV Almond, KY Chay, DS Lee… - 2002 - elsa.berkeley.edu
... comments. Does Low Birth Weight Matter? Evidence from the US Population of Twin
Births * Douglas Almond NBER Kenneth Y. Chay UC Berkeley and NBER David
S. Lee UC Berkeley and NBER September 2002 ABSTRACT ...
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[BOOK] Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in Mississippi

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DV Almond, KY Chay, M Greenstone… - 2001 - econ.ucdavis.edu
Page 1. Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant
Mortality in Mississippi* Douglas V. Almond, Kenneth Y. Chay, and Michael
Greenstone November 2003 * We thank David Card, John DiNardo ...
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Killing me softly: The fetal origins hypothesis

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D Almond… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: In the epidemiological literature, the fetal origins hypothesis associated with David
J. Barker posits that chronic, degenerative conditions of adult health, including heart disease
and type 2 diabetes, may be triggered by circumstances decades earlier, particularly, by in ...
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[BOOK] Civil rights, the war on poverty, and black-white convergence in infant mortality in the rural South and Mississippi

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D Almond, KY Chay, M Greenstone… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: For the last sixty years, African-Americans have been 75% more likely to die during
infancy as whites. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, however, this racial gap narrowed
substantially. We argue that the elimination of widespread racial segregation in Southern ...
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Inside the war on poverty: the impact of food stamps on birth outcomes

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D Almond, HW Hoynes… - 2008 - nber.org
This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll
out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using
variation in the month the FSP began operating in each US county, we find that ...
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Capital, wages, and growth: Theory and evidence

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A Ciccone, D Almond… - IGIER Working Paper No. 152, 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Returns to scale to capital and the strength of capital externalities play a key role
for the empirical predictions and policy implications of different growth theories. We show
that both can be identified with individual wage data and implement our approach at the ...
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Estimating marginal returns to medical care: Evidence from at-risk newborns

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D Almond, JJ Doyle Jr, AE Kowalski… - 2008 - nber.org
We estimate marginal returns to medical care for at-risk newborns by comparing health
outcomes and medical treatment provision on either side of common risk classifications,
most notably the" very low birth weight" threshold at 1500 grams. First, using data on the ...
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[BOOK] Son preference and the persistence of culture: evidence from Asian immigrants to Canada

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D Almond, L Edlund, K Milligan… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Sex ratios at birth are above the biologically normal level in a number of Asian
countries, notably India and China. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural
emphasis on male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using Census data, ...
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Health capital and the prenatal environment: The effect of maternal fasting during pregnancy

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D Almond… - 2008 - nber.org
We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal
health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we find prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab
mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length. Exposure to Ramadan ...
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[PDF] Health capital and the prenatal environment: the effect of Ramadan observance during pregnancy

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D Almond… - American Economic Journal-Applied …, 2011 - nber.org
This paper uses the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in diurnal
fasting and fetal health. Among births to Arab parents in Michigan, we find prenatal exposure
to Ramadan results in lower birth weight. Exposure in the first month of gestation also ...
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[CITATION] Cohort differences in health: a duration analysis using the National Longitudinal Mortality Study

DV Almond - University of Chicago, Population Research Center …, 2002
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Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy

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D Almond, Y Chen, M Greenstone… - The American Economic Review, 2009 - JSTOR
Air quality in China is notoriously poor. Ambient concentrations of Total Suspended
Particulates(TSP) 1981-1993 were more than double China's National Annual Mean
Ambient Air Quality Standard of 200 mg/m3 (Xiaohui Bi et al. 2007) and five times the level ...
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[PDF] The impact of the food stamp program on infant outcomes

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D Almond, HW Hoynes… - Manuscript, UC Davis, 2007 - sf.frb.org
Abstract This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on
Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early
1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each US county, we find ...
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After midnight: A regression discontinuity design in length of postpartum hospital stays

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D Almond… - 2008 - nber.org
Patients who receive more hospital treatment tend to have worse underlying health,
confounding estimates of the returns to such care. This paper compares the costs and
benefits of extending the length of hospital stay following delivery using a discontinuity in ...
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[CITATION] Civil rights, the war on poverty, and black-white convergence in infant mortality rates in Mississippi

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[CITATION] VIs the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over

D Almond - Long (term Efects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the …, 2006
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O sister, where art thou? The role of son preference and sex choice: evidence from immigrants to Canada

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D Almond, L Edlund… - 2009 - nber.org
Sex ratios at birth are above the biologically normal level in a number of Asian countries,
notably India and China. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural emphasis on
male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using Census data, focussing on ...
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Characteristics of national school lunch and school breakfast program participants

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NE Wemmerus, ES Forkosh… - 1996 - agris.fao.org
Abstract (English) The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program
are federally sponsored subsidized nutrition programs that operate in the nation's schools.
This report presents the characteristics of schools and students by their school meal ...
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[CITATION] Human Capital Development Before Five

D Almond… - Handbook of Labor Economics, ed. by O. Ashenfelter, …, 2011
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[CITATION] Trivers-Willard at birth and one year: evidence from US

D Almond… - 2007
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes.”

D Almond, HW Hoynes… - Review of Economics and Statistics
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[CITATION] Human Capital as a Local Public Good: Evidence from the 1990 Census

D Almond - 1997 - Mimeo, University of California, …
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[PDF] The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Hospital Desegregation and Black Infant Mortality in Mississippi

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DV Almond, KY Chay… - 2008 - qed.econ.queensu.ca
Page 1. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Hospital Desegregation and Black Infant Mortality
in Mississippi* Douglas V. Almond Kenneth Y. Chay Michael Greenstone * We thank
Richard Rogerson, two anonymous referees, and many ...
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[PDF] Son Preference and Early Childhood Investments in China

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D Almond, H Li… - 2010 AEA conference, 2010 - nifs.tsinghua.edu.cn
Abstract Where the fraction of male births is abnormally high, heterogeneity in son
preference would suggest that parents of sons may have a stronger son preference than
parents of daughters. Child sex may have become a stronger signal of parental sex ...
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[CITATION] The Long-Term Health Effects of Fetal Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic: An Analysis of SIPP Data

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D Almond… - American Economic Review, 2005
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[CITATION] Human Capital as a Local Public Good: Evidence form the 1990 US Census” mimeographed

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[CITATION] Michael Greenstone (2003).“

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The Role of Hospital Heterogeneity in Measuring Marginal Returns to Medical Care: A Reply to Barreca, Guldi, Lindo, and Waddell

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D Almond, JJ Doyle Jr… - The Quarterly Journal …, 2011 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract In Almond et al.(2010), we describe how marginal returns to medical care can be
estimated by comparing patients on either side of diagnostic thresholds. Our application
examines at-risk newborns near the very low birth weight threshold at 1500 g. We ...
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[CITATION] Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Development: Evidence from the 1959 to 1961 Chinese Famine

D Almond, L Edlund, H Li… - 2010 - … in East Asia, Chicago: University of …
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[CITATION] Kenneth and Chay (2005)“The Long-Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era” …

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[CITATION] VSon Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada

D Almond, L Edlund… - 2009 - V NBER Working paper 15391
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[CITATION] others,“Long-Term Effects of the 1959–1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong,”

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[PDF] Long-term effects of early-life development: Evidence from the 1959-1961 china famine

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D Almond, L Edlund, H Li… - NBER Chapters, 2010 - nber.org
Abstract This paper estimates the effects of maternal stress and malnutrition using the 1959-
1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. Observed forty years later in the 2000 China
Census (1% sample), Famine survivors showed impaired literacy, labor market, wealth, ...
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Public vs. private provision of charity care? Evidence from the expiration of Hill–Burton requirements in Florida

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D Almond, J Currie… - Journal of Health Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper explores the consequences of the expiration of charity care requirements
imposed on private hospitals by the Hill–Burton Act. We examine delivery care and the
health of newborns using the universe of Florida births from 1989 to 2003 combined with ...
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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

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B Mazumder… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and
fetal health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we find prenatal exposure to Ramadan among
Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length. Exposure to ...
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How did schooling laws improve long-term health and lower mortality?

D Almond… - Working Paper Series, 2006 - ideas.repec.org
Although it is well known that there is a strong association between education and health
much less is known about how these factors are connected, and whether the relationship is
causal. Lleras-Muney (2005) provides perhaps the strongest evidence that education has ...
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[CITATION] Estimating marginal returns to medical expenditures: Evidence from care for low birth weight babies

D Almond, JJ Doyle Jr, A Kowalski… - 2008
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[CITATION] Are Americans Saving “Optimally” for Retirement? Are Americans Saving “Optimally” for Retirement?(pp. 607-643) Contains supplements

JK Scholz, A Seshadri, S Khitatrakun… - Journal of Political …, 2006 - JSTOR
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[PDF] Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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D Almond… - 2008 - woulouj.keewu.com
Abstract We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment for evaluating
the short and long-term effects of fasting during pregnancy. Using Michigan natality data we
show that in utero exposure to Ramadan among Arab births results in lower birthweight ...
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[PDF] O Sister, Where Art Thou? The Role of Culture for Son Preference and Sex Choice: Evidence from Immigrants to Canada

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D Almond, L Edlund… - 2010 - faculty.arts.ubc.ca
Abstract What determines the preference for sons evident in abnormal sex ratios at birth in
countries such as India and China? Is the son preference just a reflection of the prevailing
economic environment, notably poverty, few economic opportunities for women, and ...
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[CITATION] Chernobyl's legacy: Prenatal exposure to radioactive fallout and school outcomes in Sweden

D Almond, L Edlund… - 2007
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[PDF] Professor Robert Moffitt Department of Economics Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218

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D Almond - 2007 - mail.eaer.org
Essentially, the authors assume that taking sibling differences will reduce bias in estimating
the effect of childhood health on adult outcomes. They ignore empirical work indicating that
measures of parental postnatal investments are positively correlated with sibling ...
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[CITATION] A study of the development of the morality play

MD Almond - 1929 - University of Oklahoma

Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance During Pregnancy «Full Text Reports

D Almond… - 2011 - mendeley.com
Abstract We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and
fetal health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we nd prenatal exposure to Ra-madan among
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[CITATION] Essays in Health Economics

DV Almond - 2002 - University of California, Berkeley
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Chernobyl

D Almond, L Edlund… - National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation
subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings
generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits ...
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Capital, Wages and Growth: Theory and Evidence

D Almond, A Ciccone… - CEPR Discussion Papers, 1999 - ideas.repec.org
Returns to scale to capital and the strength of capital externalities play a key role for the
empirical predictions and policy implications of different growth theories. We show that both
can be identified with individual wage data and implement our approach at the city-level ...
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[PDF] Son Preference and the Role of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada

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D Almond, L Edlund… - 2009 - econ.ubc.ca
Abstract Sex ratios at birth are above the biological norm in a number of Asian countries.
Many factors (eg China's one child policy, poverty, dowry payments) are believed to have
contributed to the observed son preference. Absent these factors, would there be a ...
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DP2199 Capital, Wages and Growth: Theory and Evidence

D Almond, A Ciccone… - 1999 - cepr.org
Returns to scale to capital and the strength of capital externalities play a key role for the
empirical predictions and policy implications of different growth theories. We show that both
can be identified with individual wage data and implement our approach at the city-level ...
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From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health

D Almond, J Currie… - 2011 - nber.org
This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a
woman's birth, and her health at the time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest
that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases the incidence of ...
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