Educational, Labor-market and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health

We are grateful to Dr. Sue Hawkins for providing access to data from the Historical Hospital Admission Records Project (HHARP), and to Hardish Bindra at Paradigm Data Services for coordinating the transcription of the admission records from St. Bartholomew’s and Guy’s Hospitals. Wray is indebted to his dissertation committee members Joel Mokyr (chair), Joseph Ferrie, and David Dranove for encouragement and guidance. We also thank David N. Figlio, Guillermo Marshall, Werner Troesken, seminar participants at Emory University, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Hitotsubashi University, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Northwestern University, and the University of Southern Denmark, conference participants at the World Congress of Cliometrics, the European Historical Economics Society, the Economic History Association, the Social Science History Association, the H2D2 Research Day at the University of Michigan, the NBER Children’s Meeting, and the Public Health and Development Workshop at the University of Gothenburg for helpful comments and suggestions. Wray appreciates financial support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Young Scientists B Grant Number J160100115 (PI: Wray), the Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), Hitotsubashi University, the Northwestern University Economics Department’s Eisner Fund and Center for Economic History, and the Economic History Association’s Sokoloff Fellowship. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• October 9, 2019