Alcohol Availability, Prenatal Conditions, and Long-Term Economic Outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Nilsson, J. Peter
• 署名单位: Stockholm University; Uppsala University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/692694
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1149-1207
• 关键词: MINIMUM DRINKING AGE; FAMINE BIRTH COHORT; dutch famine; socioeconomic-status; natural-selection; sex-differences; BINGE-DRINKING; in-differences; Health shocks; exposure

摘要

This study examines how a policy that sharply increased alcohol availability during 8.5 months affected the labor productivity of those exposed to it in utero. Compared to the surrounding cohorts, the prenatally exposed children have substantially worse labor market and educational outcomes and lower cognitive and noncognitive ability. Effects on earnings are found throughout the distribution but are largest below the median. Males are more affected than females, consistent with growing evidence that boys are less resilient to early environmental insults. The long-term effects seem primarily driven by changes in prenatal health rather than changes in the childhood environment.