Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life. Evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business cycle.

Autor/inn/en	Berg, Gerard J. van den; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; Christensen, Kaare
Institution	Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung
Titel	Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life. Evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business cycle. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unter schlechten ökonomischen Bedingungen geboren zu werden, führt später zu einem erhöhten Risiko, an Herz- und Gefäßkrankheiten zu sterben. Erkenntnisse zu Individuen, die in verschiedenen Phasen des Konjunkturzyklus geboren wurden.
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Reihe	MPIDR Working Paper. 2008-023
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen 3; Tabellen 7
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Soziale Situation; Lebensalter; Lebenserwartung; Kind; Gesundheitsfolgen; Herzkrankheit; Krankheit; Gesundheit; Armut; Lebensbedingungen; Lebensqualität; Sterblichkeit; Sterben; Lebensstandard; Benachteiligung; Lebensdauer
Abstract	"We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births since the 1870s and including the cause of death. To capture exogenous variation of conditions early in life we use the state of the business cycle around birth. We find a significant negative effect of economic conditions early in life on the individual CV mortality rate at higher ages. There is no effect on the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under different conditions we conclude that the fate of an individual is more strongly determined by genetic and household-environmental factors if early-life conditions are poor. Individual-specific qualities come more to fruition if the starting position in life is better." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2010/1