This article explores how child growth has changed over the past 150 years and links
changes in child growth to the recent decline in child stunting in low‐and middle‐income …

Natural disasters, pandemics, and epidemics have devastating impacts on communities.
Poverty, famine, ill health, social isolation, and death are some of the consequences of such …

Many previous studies have shown that prenatal exposure to adverse historical
circumstances negatively affects long-run health. Most women who are pregnant during …

This article uses the health shock on Japanese civilians of the Second World War to
understand the effects of health shocks at different developmental stages on children's long …

This study explores the long-run effects of a temporary scarcity of a consumption good on
preferences towards that good once the shock is over. Specifically, we focus on individuals …

This paper examines the causal effect of a traumatic event experienced by pregnant women
on the life-long labor market outcomes of their offspring. We exploit a unique natural …

This study explores the long-run effects of a temporary scarcity of a consumption good on
individuals' preferences towards that good when the shock is over. We focus on people that …

This study examines how early-life exposure to food scarcity influences individuals' long-
term time preferences and savings behavior. To this end, we analyze hand-collected …

Numerous studies have demonstrated the negative impact of severe economic shocks (such
as those associated with wars) on the growth of children and adolescents. Individuals …

This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market
outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids …