ArticleJournal of health economics2022
Social insurance programs and later-life mortality: Evidence from new deal relief spending.
Article in Journal of health economics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Early-Life Economic Conditions and Old-Age Male Mortality: Evidence from Historical County-Level Bank Deposit Data.Journal of population economics · 2024Article
- Long-Term Health Benefits of Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Midwifery Laws.Journal of health economics · 2023Article
- CenSoc: Public Linked Administrative Mortality Records for Individual-level Research.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Long-run intergenerational health benefits of women empowerment: Evidence from suffrage movements in the US.Health economics · 2023Article
- Childhood exposure to birth registration laws and old-age mortality.Health economics · 2023Article
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Abstract
A growing body of research explores the long-run effects of social programs and welfare spending. However, evidence linking welfare support in early life with longevity is limited. We add to this literature by evaluating the effect of in-utero and early-life exposure to the largest increases in welfare spending in the US history under the New Deal programs. Using Social Security Administration death records linked with the 1940-census and spending data for 115 major cities, we show that the spending is correlated with improvements in old-age longevity. A treatment-on-treated calculation focused on a period when spending rose by approximately 1900 percent finds that a 100 percent rise in municipal spending in the year of birth is associated with roughly 3.5 months higher longevity. We show that these effects are not driven by endogenous selection of births, selective fertility, endogenous migration, and sample selection caused by endogenous data linking. Additional analysis suggests that rises in education and socioeconomic status are likely channels of impact.
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