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The seminar will be held on campus in Edward Wright S86 and via MS Teams on Feburary 28th from 3pm - 4:15pm.
Join Dr Valeria Rueda, Assistant Professor in Economics at University of Nottingham.
Abstract:
“This paper studies the effect of growing up in times of industrial decline on individual health development throughout life. We measure the effect of Britain’s coal mining industry decline on the health of individuals born in mining counties. Exploiting data from the two first cohorts of the UK Longitudinal Studies (1958 and 1970), we observe that mine closures during the age 0-10 lead to lower height throughout a person’s life, and lower weight and worse health during childhood. We do not observe this effect to be stronger in families in which the father is a miner. A plausible mechanism for the worse anthropometric outcomes is the general eco- nomic hardship experienced in the local area during childhood. Fathers from all occupations are indeed more likely to be unemployed during the individual’s early childhood where mines close. The longitudinal nature of our data allows us to overcome a number of key empirical challenges in evaluating the effect over an individual’s lifetime. This includes accounting for general differences in local eco- nomic development patterns, and family characteristics that have an effect only at later stages of life as well as out-migration from areas affected by the mine closures.”
- Speaker
- Dr Valeria Rueda
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen Business School
- Venue
- Edward Wright Building
- Contact
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No booking required.