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SUBMITTER: Warren JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3786621 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Warren John Robert JR Knies Laurie L Haas Steven S Hernandez Elaine M EM
Social science & medicine (1982) 20120704 8
We use family fixed-effects models to estimate the impact of childhood health on adult literacy, labor force outcomes, and marital status among pairs of white brothers observed as children in the 1880 U.S. Census and then as adults in the 1900-1930 Censuses. Given our focus on the 19th century, we observed a wider array of infectious, chronic, and traumatic health problems than is observed using data that are more recent; our results thus provide some insights into circumstances in modern develo ...[more]