Early life environment and adult height: The case of Chile
Autor: | Florencia Borrescio-Higa, Federico Droller, Carlos Bozzoli |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
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Male 060106 history of social sciences Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Developing country Public Policy Environment Guanosine Diphosphate Gross domestic product Cohort Studies Urbanization 0502 economics and business Infant Mortality Humans 0601 history and archaeology 050207 economics Chile Internal migration Health Policy 05 social sciences Infant 06 humanities and the arts Infant mortality Adult height Body Height Geography Socioeconomic Factors Cohort Predictive power Female Demography |
Zdroj: | Economics and human biology. 33 |
ISSN: | 1873-6130 |
Popis: | In this paper, we analyze the relationship between adult height and early-life disease environment, proxied by the infant mortality rate (IMR) in the first year of life, using cohort-region level data for Chile for 1960–1989. IMRs show a remarkable reduction of 100 points per thousand over this thirty-year period, declining from 119.4 to 21.0 per thousand. We also document a 0.96 cm increase in height per decade.We find that the drop in IMRs observed among our cohorts explains almost all of the long-term trend in rising adult heights, and that per capita GDP does not appear to have any predictive power in this context. Results are robust in a variety of specifications, which include area and cohort dummies, an adjustment for internal migration, and urbanization rates. Our results point to the long-term effect of a public health policy. |
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