Legal abortion and lifelong health
This study examines the long-term health benefits of early-life exposure to legal abortion.
This study examines the long-term health benefits of early-life exposure to legal abortion.
This study explores how a devastating pest, the boll weevil, accidentally improved long-term health for children growing up in the early 1900s Cotton Belt.
This study examines how a 20th-century Social Security policy cut retirement benefits for certain birth cohorts, resulting in reduced income and shorter lifespans.
This study finds that boys born in New England counties hit hard by the textile industry collapse in the 1920s–30s lived about 3.6 months less if they stayed in those areas.
This study looks at how a surprise one-time cash bonus in 1936—given to World War I veterans—affected the long-term health of their children.
This study examines the long-term health effects of early-life exposure to alcohol prohibition in the U.S.
This study examines how being born during the Great Depression impacted how long people lived.
This study examines the long-run health consequences of being in utero during the Dust Bowl, one of the most severe environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Exposure in early life to the social and racial hostility sparked by the 1915 film Birth of a Nation led to significant long-term health impacts on Black Americans.
This study reveals that early-life exposure to the 1916 polio epidemic had long-term consequences on male longevity.