From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: early life conditions and adult health in Ireland

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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality penalty. Estimates suggest that a unit decrease in mortality rates at time of birth reduces the probability of being disabled as an adult by between .03 and .05 percentage points. We find that individuals from lower socio economic groups had marginal effects of reduced infant mortality twice as large as those at the top.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4548

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health: Other ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-
• Subject: Childhood health ; disability ; Kinder ; Gesundheit ; Kindersterblichkeit ; Lebenszyklus ; Behinderte ; Gesundheitspolitik ; Geschichte ; Irland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Delaney, Liam ; McGovern, Mark ; Smith, James P.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36263