Does a pint day affect your childs pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes

Arbeitspapier

This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp increase in alcohol consumption in the experimental regions, particularly among youths. Using a difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy we find that around age 30 the cohort in utero during the experiment have substantially reduced educational attainments, lower earnings and higher welfare dependency rates compared to the surrounding cohorts. The results indicate that investments in early-life health may have far reaching effects on economic outcomes later in life.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2008:4

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: Alcohol policy ; infant health ; education ; earnings ; Alkoholkonsum ; Gesundheit ; Kinder ; Bildungsniveau ; Einkommen ; Alkoholpolitik ; Schätzung ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Nilsson, J. Peter
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/78644
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET