Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure
- Publikationstyp:
- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
- Metadaten:
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- Autoren
- Reyn van Ewijk
- Maarten Lindeboom
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000886075900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101186
- eISSN
- 1873-6130
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: 6I4CV
- PubMed Identifier: 36379146
- ISSN
- 1570-677X
- Zeitschrift
- ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY
- Schlüsselwörter
- Fetal origins
- War
- Health
- Prenatal circumstances
- Selective fertility
- Selective mortality
- Artikelnummer
- ARTN 101186
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 47
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
- Andere Metadatenquellen:
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- Autoren
- Reyn van Ewijk
- Maarten Lindeboom
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101186
- ISSN
- 1570-677X
- Zeitschrift
- Economics & Human Biology
- Sprache
- en
- Artikelnummer
- 101186
- Paginierung
- 101186 - 101186
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- Elsevier BV
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101186
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2023
- Titel
- Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 47
Datenquelle: Crossref
- Abstract
- Many previous studies have shown that prenatal exposure to adverse historical circumstances negatively affects long-run health. Most women who are pregnant during wars experience clearly adverse circumstances that are however not as harsh as the typically studied extreme episodes such as famines, combat and wide-scale destruction. We show that prenatal exposure to World War II (WWII) in five Western European countries did not lead to a population-wide poorer health among the elderly. We even find indications of a better than expected health. This is likely due to selective fertility and mortality. We attempt to quantify these selection effects and show that when taking them into account, the initially positively estimated health effects on almost all outcomes are substantially attenuated. Selective mortality and fertility likely occur in similar directions for many historical episodes of adversity. Our results therefore suggest that a part of the previous research on such exposures likely under estimated the true sizes of the long-run effects.
- Addresses
- Faculty of Law and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: vanewijk@uni-mainz.de.
- Autoren
- Reyn van Ewijk
- Maarten Lindeboom
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101186
- eISSN
- 1873-6130
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 36379146
- Open access
- false
- ISSN
- 1570-677X
- Zeitschrift
- Economics and human biology
- Schlüsselwörter
- Humans
- Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
- Mortality
- Fertility
- Pregnancy
- World War II
- Aged
- Health Services
- Female
- Sprache
- eng
- Medium
- Print-Electronic
- Online publication date
- 2022
- Paginierung
- 101186
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2022
- Titel
- Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 47
Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central
- Abstract
- Many previous studies have shown that prenatal exposure to adverse historical circumstances negatively affects long-run health. Most women who are pregnant during wars experience clearly adverse circumstances that are however not as harsh as the typically studied extreme episodes such as famines, combat and wide-scale destruction. We show that prenatal exposure to World War II (WWII) in five Western European countries did not lead to a population-wide poorer health among the elderly. We even find indications of a better than expected health. This is likely due to selective fertility and mortality. We attempt to quantify these selection effects and show that when taking them into account, the initially positively estimated health effects on almost all outcomes are substantially attenuated. Selective mortality and fertility likely occur in similar directions for many historical episodes of adversity. Our results therefore suggest that a part of the previous research on such exposures likely under estimated the true sizes of the long-run effects.
- Date of acceptance
- 2022
- Autoren
- Reyn van Ewijk
- Maarten Lindeboom
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36379146
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101186
- eISSN
- 1873-6130
- Zeitschrift
- Econ Hum Biol
- Schlüsselwörter
- Fetal origins
- Health
- Prenatal circumstances
- Selective fertility
- Selective mortality
- War
- Pregnancy
- Female
- Humans
- Aged
- Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects
- Fertility
- Health Services
- World War II
- Mortality
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- Netherlands
- Paginierung
- 101186
- PII
- S1570-677X(22)00082-X
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2022
- Titel
- Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 47
Datenquelle: PubMed
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