ABSTRACT

This paper investigates how in-utero exposure to the Korean War (1950–1953) affected health outcomes at old age. The probabilities of suffering from a particular type of functional limitation as well as having any disability were significantly higher in 2010 among the individuals born in 1951, who were in utero during the worst time of the war. The results of difference-in-difference estimations suggest that the magnitude of the adverse 1951 cohort effect on health is significantly larger for individuals whose places of birth were more seriously devastated by the war. Available evidence supports the hypothesis that the adverse long-term effects of in-utero exposure to the Korean War found in this study are unlikely driven by selection bias: the subjects of the 1951 birth cohort were not negatively selected in terms of parental characteristics in 1960.

摘要

本文研究了宫内接触朝鲜战争（1950–1953年）如何影响老年人的健康结局。在1951年出生的子宫内个体中，患有特定类型的功能障碍以及患有任何残疾的可能性在2010年明显更高在战争最糟糕的时期。差异差异的估计结果表明，对于出生地点受到战争严重破坏的个人，1951年队列对健康的不利影响程度要大得多。现有证据支持以下假设：本研究中发现的宫内接触朝鲜战争的长期不利影响不太可能由选择偏见驱动：1951年出生队列的受试者在1960年的父母特征方面并未受到负面选择。