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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The benefits of intervention: birth weights in Basle 1912-1920 |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 236 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 36 |
| Date | 2016 |
| Abstract Text | To assess the impact of interventions on well-being during war time, we analyze data from the birth records at the university maternity hospital of Basle in the period 1912-1920. Birth weight of children from medium SEP families decreased during the crisis years 1918 and 1919, but not for low and high SEP families. A potential explanation is access to food: while high SEP families could compensate for high prices, low SEP families received support, for which medium SEP families were not eligible. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp236.pdf |
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| Keywords | Birth weight, World War 1, Switzerland, Geburtsgewicht, soziale Unterstützung, Wohlstand, Weltkrieg 1914-1918, Schweiz |