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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2012
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Working Paper No. 2012:23
Verlag: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Zusammenfassung: 
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 allows us to estimate the causal effect of conditions at certain ages on adult height. We effectively exploit that for siblings the migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find some evidence that the period just before the puberty growth spurt constitutes a critical period.
Schlagwörter: 
early-life conditions
migration
parental education
adult health
height retardation
age
fetal programming
developmental origins
JEL: 
F22
I10
I12
I18
I20
I30
J10
N30
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