Multigenerational Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks

Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason M.; Forgues, Angela

doi:10.1007/s13524-019-00804-3

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“…As such, these effects could represent a mechanism—alongside, e.g., epigenetics, or the more direct role of parental education in facilitating children's access to quality healthcare and schooling—by which we see intergenerational persistence in the consequences of early-life exposure to the influenza pandemic of 1918. Indeed, moderate adverse effects on educational attainment, occupational prestige, and family socioeconomic status have been documented up to the third generation, i.e., the grandchildren of those exposed in utero ( Cook et al 2019 ).…”

Section: Consequences For Wellbeing Through the Health Channel: The 1mentioning

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Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19

Arthi¹,

Parman²

2021

Explorations in Economic History

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How might COVID-19 affect human capital and wellbeing in the long run? The COVID-19 pandemic has already imposed a heavy human cost—taken together, this public health crisis and its attendant economic downturn appear poised to dwarf the scope, scale, and disruptiveness of most modern pandemics. What evidence we do have about other modern pandemics is largely limited to short-run impacts. Consequently, recent experience can do little to help us anticipate and respond to COVID-19’s potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical crises offer closer analogues to COVID-19 in each of its key dimensions—as a global pandemic, as a global recession—and offer the runway necessary to study the life-course and intergenerational outcomes. In this paper, we review the evidence on the long-run effects on health, labor, and human capital of both historical pandemics (with a focus on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic) and historical recessions (with a focus on the Great Depression). We conclude by discussing how past crises can inform our approach to COVID-19—helping tell us what to look for, what to prepare for, and what data we ought to collect now.

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Section: Consequences For Wellbeing Through the Health Channel: The 1mentioning

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Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19

Arthi¹,

Parman²

2021

Explorations in Economic History

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“…These results are in line with those in Chul Hong and Yun (2017) which uses data from colonial Korea. Richter and Robling (2013) and Cook et al (2018) are other studies that evaluate the impact of the Spanish Flu on multiple generations.…”

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The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American Way

2019

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Orlic, and Uros Randelovic for excellent research assistance. This project was made possible by a Provost Research Grant and funds from the Brazil Initiative at Brandeis University. The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…Pandemics are known to have an immediate and intergenerational health and non-health impact. For, example the 1918 in uenza pandemic had not only taken millions of lives, but also affected the social, economic and health aspects of next generation [29].Therefore, public health response to avert a potential loss due to a pandemic will not only saves lives now, it also improves recovery of the health system and other sectors. Since resources are scarce, information on prioritizing resources at the time of a pandemic to save many lives is crucial to decision makers.…”

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A Protocol for a Systematic Review of Economic Evaluation Studies Conducted on Influenza and Recent Pandemic Prevention and Control

Yigezu¹,

Yitayal²,

Mikuzie³

2020

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Background: The COVID-19, illness caused by a novel coronavirus, is the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness in Wuhan, Hubei Province China beginning in 31 December 2019. The direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic and the public health measures taken to prevent the distribution of the pandemic on mortality and morbidity, and social and economic status of the community are enormous. The public health measures against the pandemic such as school closure, unemployment and business shutdown incur cost on the society; reduce the provision and quality of health services due to the diversion of resource allocation to COVID-19 response (prevention and control) activities; result in negative influence on the healthcare seeking behavior of the society; and increase cost of seeking healthcare due to reduced global pharmaceutical supply chain. Evidence-based decision is crucial to prevent and manage the catastrophic impact of a pandemic and its public health measures. The aim of this review is to systematically review economic evaluation of interventions to respond to coronavirus pandemics in the global perspective. We included researches on influenza pandemic and COVID-19 as there are only few studies conducted in COVID-19.Method: A full and partial economic analysis conducted on influenza and COVID-19 pandemic published in English language between 2012 and 2020 will be eligible. Studies with and without comparators will be included. We will build an exhaustive database search strategy in the global health cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) registry, PubMed, African Journals online and Elsevier for relevant studies. We will do a hand-searching of cited research and bibliographies of all identified relevant studies. Two authors will independently select potentially eligible titles and abstracts, extract data from selected studies using structured collection form after a pre-test and do a risk of bias assessment. Third author will be involved if there is disagreement between the two. If variation of extracted data between the reviewers is observed, the phase will be repeated, and if discrepancies between data extractors continued, third reviewer will be involved. We will use a narrative summary and tables to summarize the result and characteristics of eligible studies. In addition, attempts will be made to change reports in case and death averted to disability life year averted (DALY) averted.Discussion: Unless a careful decision is made to control a pandemic; the health, economy, social, and political aspect of countries will be in impacted. Public health measures that are implemented to respond to a pandemic should be cost-effective. This review will systematically analyze economic evaluation studies conducted on influenza and COVID-19 pandemics and synthesize evidence for public health measures. This review will further identify existing gaps in research for more studies. Systematic review registration: PROSPERO: CRD42020192384

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Multigenerational Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks

Cited by 40 publications

References 32 publications

Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19

Disease, downturns, and wellbeing: Economic history and the long-run impacts of COVID-19

The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American Way

A Protocol for a Systematic Review of Economic Evaluation Studies Conducted on Influenza and Recent Pandemic Prevention and Control

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