Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185175 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11715
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper provides new evidence of the impacts of early life exposure to the 1918 pandemic on old-age mortality by analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study (n ~ 220,000). The specifications used year and quarter of birth indicators to assess the effects of timing of pandemic exposure and used Cox proportional hazard models for all-cause mortality outcomes. The findings suggest evidence of excess all-cause mortality for cohorts born during 1918 and mixed evidence for cohorts born in 1917 and 1919. Therefore, contrary to some existing research, the results suggest no consistent evidence of the importance of specific windows of exposure by gestation period.
Subjects: 
early conditions
in utero
1918 influenza pandemic
mortality
JEL: 
I14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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