Early life environment and adult height: The case of Chile |
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| Institution: | 1. Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile;2. Fundación Bunge y Born and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina;3. Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile;1. Department of Economics, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 349, United States;2. Department of Economics, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 345, United States;1. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States;2. Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Inter-University Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), Groningen, The Netherlands;1. Department of social sciences & IAO, ENS Lyon, 15 Parvis René Descartes, 69342 Lyon, France;2. KEDGE Business School and SDSN France, Campus de Luminy, 13008 Marseille, France;3. Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zürichbergstrasse 14, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we analyze the relationship between adult height and early-life disease environment, proxied by the infant mortality rate (IMR) in the first year of life, using cohort-region level data for Chile for 1960–1989. IMRs show a remarkable reduction of 100 points per thousand over this thirty-year period, declining from 119.4 to 21.0 per thousand. We also document a 0.96 cm increase in height per decade.We find that the drop in IMRs observed among our cohorts explains almost all of the long-term trend in rising adult heights, and that per capita GDP does not appear to have any predictive power in this context. Results are robust in a variety of specifications, which include area and cohort dummies, an adjustment for internal migration, and urbanization rates. Our results point to the long-term effect of a public health policy. |
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| Keywords: | Adult height Infant mortality Income Developing country |
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