Collateral damage: The German food crisis, educational attainment and labor market outcomes of German post-war cohorts

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 286-303

  Jürges, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Educational attainment; Fetal origins hypothesis; Labor market outcomes; Malnutrition

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LABOR MARKET; MALNUTRITION; POST-WAR;

ARTICLE; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FERTILIZATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRENATAL DISORDER; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAR;

BIRTH WEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETAL DISEASES; FOOD SUPPLY; GERMANY, WEST; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; WORLD WAR II;

AUSTRIA; GERMANY;

EID: 84870817732     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: 18791646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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