Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162439 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 236
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
To assess the impact of interventions on well-being during war time, we analyze data from the birth records at the university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased during the crisis years 1918 and 1919, but not for low and high SEP families. A potential explanation is access to food: while high SEP families could compensate for high prices, low SEP families received support, for which medium SEP families were not eligible.
Subjects: 
Birth weight
World War 1
Switzerland
JEL: 
N14
N34
H75
I18
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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