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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 Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay
Pietro Biroli, Titus J. Galama, Stephanie von Hinke +3
Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be…