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Infant Health and Later-Life Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Introduction of Sulpha Antibiotics in Sweden

Volha Lazuka
Published online before print October 16, 2018, 0817-9016R; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.55.3.0817-9016R
Volha Lazuka
Volha Lazuka is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economic History and the Centre for Economic Demography, Lund University, Box 7083, 220 07 Lund, Sweden ().
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Abstract

This paper studies the effects of improvements in infant health produced by the introduction of sulphapyridine in the late-1930s as treatment against pneumonia on outcomes in adulthood. Based on longitudinal individual data for the whole population of Sweden 1968–2012 and archival data on the availability of sulphapyridine and applying a difference-in-differences approach, it finds that mitigation of pneumonia infection in infancy increased labor income in late adulthood by 2.8–5.1 percent. The beneficial effects are strong for health, measured by length of stay in hospital, and weaker for years of schooling. These effects are similar between men and women.

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Infant Health and Later-Life Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Introduction of Sulpha Antibiotics in Sweden
Volha Lazuka
Journal of Human Resources Oct 2018, 0817-9016R; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.55.3.0817-9016R

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Infant Health and Later-Life Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Introduction of Sulpha Antibiotics in Sweden
Volha Lazuka
Journal of Human Resources Oct 2018, 0817-9016R; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.55.3.0817-9016R
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