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| Title: | | Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: A study of adult height among immigrant siblings  |
| Authors: | | van den Berg, Gerard J. Lundborg, Petter Nystedt, Paul Rooth, Dan-Olof |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation 2011:5 |
| Abstract: | | We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 allows us to estimate the causal effect of conditions at certain ages on adult height. Moreover, we compare siblings born outside and within Sweden. We apply fixed-effect methods to a sample of about 9,000 brothers. We effectively exploit that for siblings the migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find some evidence for a critical period at age 9. The effects are stronger in families migrating from poorer countries but weaker if the mother is well-educated. |
| Subjects: | | early-life conditions migration parental education adult health height retardation age fetal programming developmental origins |
| JEL: | | I10 I12 I18 F22 I20 I30 J10 N30 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
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