50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. We take advantage of recently available … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … would be desirable to trace the changes of health status of the famine survivors as they age into later life stages. We …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and …

exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in … population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status … Danish administrative data and variation in the onset of type 1 diabetes to compare education outcomes of focal children with …

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a leading diagnosed health condition among children in many … administrative health insurance claims data from Germany we study the effects of relative school entry age on ADHD risk in Europe … education. We find robust evidence for school-entry age related misdiagnosis of ADHD in Germany. Within Germany and …

We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters …