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Individual behavior as a pathway between early-life shocks and adult health: Evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Kesternich, Iris
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Siflinger, Bettina
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Smith, James
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Winter, Joachim
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URL:
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http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_...
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Dokumenttyp:
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Arbeitspapier
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Erscheinungsjahr:
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2013
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Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe:
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RAND Labor and Population Working Paper Series
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Band/Volume:
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1015
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Ort der Veröffentlichung:
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Santa Monica, Calif.
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Sprache der Veröffentlichung:
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Englisch
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Einrichtung:
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Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre > Alexander v. Humboldt Professor in Econometrics and Empirical Economics (van den Berg 2009-2016)
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Fachgebiet:
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330 Wirtschaft
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Abstract:
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We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes in later life. We combine self-reported data on hunger experiences
from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of SHARE in Europe in
2009, with administrative data on food supply (caloric rations) in post-war Germany. The
data suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult
health: We find that those who experienced hunger spend a larger fraction of income on
food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well-documented
biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway.
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