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CREATED:20150211T182243
SUMMARY:Franco Peracchi - Georgetown University & University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Growing up in wartime: Evidence from the era of two world wars\nAbstract:\n
 We study the long-term consequences of war on health and human capital of E
 uropeans born during the first half of the twentieth century, a period that
  has been termed the era of two world wars". This period includes not only 
 WW1 and WW2, but also the Spanish Flu and a long series of armed conflicts 
 which foreshadowed or followed the two world wars. Using a variety of data,
  at both the macro- and the micro-level, we address the following questions
 : What are the patterns of mortality and survival among people born during 
 this era? What are the consequences of early-life shocks on the health and 
 human capital of the survivors some 50 years later? Do these consequences d
 iffer by gender, socio-economic status in childhood, and age when the shock
 s occurred? We find that mortality is much higher in war- than in non-war c
 ountries during WW1 and WW2, but not during the Spanish Flu. We also find i
 mportant differences between WW1 and WW2 in the mortality patterns by gende
 r and age. As for the long-term consequences of mortality shocks on the sur
 vivors, we find little evidence of increased adult mortality for people bor
 n during WW1 and WW2, but some evidence for people born during the Spanish 
 Flu, especially, in England and Wales, France and Italy. On the other hand,
  war-related hardship episodes in childhood or adolescence (in particular e
 xposure to war events and hunger) are strong predictors of physical and men
 tal health, education, cognitive ability and wellbeing past age 50. The mag
 nitude of the estimated effects differs by socio-economic status in childho
 od and gender, with exposure to war events having a larger impact on female
 s and exposure to hunger having a larger impact on males. We also find that
  exposure to hunger matters more in childhood, while exposure to war events
  matters more in adolescence. Finally, we find that hardship episodes have 
 stronger consequences if they last longer.\n
DTSTAMP:20260404T122117Z
DTSTART:20141211T173000Z
DTEND:20141211T190000Z
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