Dear colleagues,

we cordially invite you to our online research seminar

Wednesday, 14th of October, 2020, 4pm

Maarten Lindeboom (VU University Amsterdam) https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/maarten-lindeboom

"Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes"
https://ideas.repec.org/p/iza/izadps/dp13744.html

Abstract: 
This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers in Italy and link this data to unique historical data with detailed information about war casualties and Nazi raids across space (Municipality) and time. We find that prenatal stress exposure leads to lower wage earnings when workers start their career, and that this effect persists until retirement. The earnings penalty is in large part due to the type of job that people hold and interruptions in their working career due to unemployment. We further show that workers exposed to in-utero stress face larger earnings reductions after job loss due to mass layoffs. This earnings loss deepens their relative disadvantage over time.

Maarten Lindeboom (PhD Leiden University) is a professor of Economics and chair of the department of economics. He is currently editor of the Journal of Health Economics. Research interests in applied microeconomics in the field of health, labor, and ageing.

Selected publications:
* Audit regimes in long-term care, Lindeboom, M., van der Klaauw, B. & Vriend, S., 2020, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
* Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data,van den Berg, G. J., Gerdtham, U. G., von Hinke, S., Lindeboom, M., Lissdaniels, J., Sundquist, J. & Sundquist, K., 2017, Journal of Health Economics.
* Economic conditions early in life and individual mortality, GJ Van den Berg, M Lindeboom, F Portrait, 2006, American Economic Review.


With best regards,
rené böheim

—  
PD René Böheim, PhD
Department of Economics

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