THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR II ON ECONOMIC AND HEALTH OUTCOMES ACROSS EUROPE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; Winter, Joachim K.
• 署名单位: University of Munich; RAND Corporation; Rand Health
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00353
• 发表日期: 2014-03
• 页码: 103-118
• 关键词: socioeconomic-status; childhood health; origins; PREVALENCE; IMPACT

摘要

We investigate long-run effects of World War II on socioeconomic status and health of older individuals in Europe. We analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of SHARE in Europe in 2009. SHARELIFE provides detailed data on events in childhood during and after the war for over 20,000 individuals in thirteen European countries. We construct several measures of war exposure: experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in local areas, and hunger periods. Exposure to war and, more important, to individual-level shocks caused by the war significantly predicts economic and health outcomes at older ages.