The benefits of intervention : birth weights in Basle 1912-1920

Joël Floris, Kaspar Staub and Ulrich Woitek

To assess the impact of interventions on well-being during war time, we analyze data from the birth records at the university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased during the crisis years 1918 and 1919, but not for low and high SEP families. A potential explanation is access to food: while high SEP families could compensate for high prices, low SEP families received support, for which medium SEP families were not eligible.

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Year of publication:	October 2016
Authors:	Floris, Joël ; Staub, Kaspar ; Woitek, Ulrich
Publisher:	Zurich : University of Zurich, Department of Economics
Subject:	Birth weight \| World War 1 \| Switzerland \| Schweiz \| Kinder \| Children \| Gesundheit \| Health \| Körpergewicht \| Body weight \| Fertilität \| Fertility

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 37 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Working paper series / University of Zurich, Department of Economics. - Zurich : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1664-705X, ZDB-ID 2625625-3. - Vol. no. 236
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.5167/uzh-126887 [DOI] hdl:10419/162439 [Handle]
Classification:	N14 - Europe: 1913- ; N34 - Europe: 1913- ; H75 - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare ; I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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