Born at the right time? Childhood health and the business cycle

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue , 2014, Pages 35-43

  Angelini, Viola ^a   Mierau, Jochen O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Childhood health; Retrospective data; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; CHILD HEALTH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INFANT MORTALITY;

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT;

WESTERN EUROPE;

BUSINESS CYCLE; CHILDHOOD HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE DATA; WESTERN EUROPE;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899578646     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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