The long-run consequences of poor childhood health for labor market outcomes

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Research conducted on the first phase of the project during FY2016 included the construction of an updated data set, new data analysis, and seminar presentations. Transcription of hospital admission records was outsourced to a data entry firm, and the output of female patient records received was incorporated with previously collected data for male patients. I applied for and received access to restricted-use individual-level UK census data, which included person names and street addresses, from the UK Data Archive. This process has be delayed by over a year due to negotiations over access conditions. However, once available, this data was combined with other variables in the census to match individual records from the hospital registers to the census records, to create an updated version of the data set. In addition, data from marriage certificates of female patients and their siblings were collected from genealogy websites. Empirical analysis is ongoing. I was invited to present the working paper based on the research at the University of British Columbia, Seoul National University, and at the Ce2 Workshop in Warsaw, Poland, and presented the paper internally at Hitotsubashi.I have also begun work on the second phase of the project, which involves studying the contribution of funding for hospital provided by the Duke Endowment to reducing racial disparities in health in the U.S. South during the early-twentieth century. I identified data on the funding provided by the Duke Endowment, hospital openings and other measures of hospital care from published annual reports.