324 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
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- Erasmus University RotterdamNL3 papers
- McMaster UniversityCA3 papers
- Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUS3 papers
- University of BolognaIT3 papers
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Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions
Ruijun Hou, Samuel Baker, Stephanie von Hinke +3
We study the long-term health and human capital impacts of local economic conditions experienced during the first 1,000 days of life. We combine historical data on monthly unemploy…
Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Samuel Baker, Pietro Biroli, Hans van Kippersluis +1
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond 1986 show a strong…
Gene-Environment Interplay in the Social Sciences
Rita Dias Pereira, Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama +4
Nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) jointly contribute to the formation and evolution of health and human capital over the life cycle. This complex interplay betwe…
The Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Pollution Exposure: Evidence from the London Smog
Stephanie von Hinke, Emil N. Sørensen
This paper uses a large UK cohort to investigate the impact of early-life pollution exposure on individuals' human capital and health outcomes in older age. We compare individuals…
Desperate times call for desperate measures: government spending multipliers in hard times
Sokbae Lee, Yuan Liao, Myung Hwan Seo +1
We investigate state-dependent effects of fiscal multipliers and allow for endogenous sample splitting to determine whether the US economy is in a slack state. When the endogenized…