The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe.
We investigate long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status and health of older individuals in Europe. We analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of SHARE in Europe in 2009. SHARELIFE provides detailed data on events in childhood during and after the war for over 20,000 individuals in 13 European countries. We construct several measures of war exposure-experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in local areas, and hunger periods. Exposure to war and more importantly to individual-level shocks caused by the war significantly predicts economic and health outcomes at older ages.
University of Munich.
Iris
I
Kesternich
University of Munich.
Bettina
B
Siflinger
RAND.
James P
JP
Smith
University of Munich.
Joachim K
JK
Winter