Do Childhood Infections Affect Labour Market Outcomes in Adulthood and, if so, how?
Viinikainen, J., Bryson, A., Böckerman, P., Elovainio, M., Hutri-Kähönen, N., Juonala, M., Lehtimäki, T., Pahkala, K., Rovio, S., Pulkki-Råback, L., Raitakari, O., & Pehkonen, J. (2020). Do Childhood Infections Affect Labour Market Outcomes in Adulthood and, if so, how?. Economics and Human Biology, 37, Article 100857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100857
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TaloustiedePolitiikkarelevantti taloustiede (painoala)Empirical MicroeconomicsEconomicsPolicy-Relevant Economics (focus area)Empirical MicroeconomicsCopyright
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A burgeoning body of literature suggests that poor childhood health leads to adverse health outcomes, lower educational attainment and weaker labour market outcomes in adulthood. We focus on an important but under-researched topic, which is the role played by infection-related hospitalization (IRH) in childhood and its links to labour market outcomes later in life. The participants aged 24-30 years in 2001 (N = 1,706) were drawn from the Young Finns Study, which includes comprehensive registry data on IRHs in childhood at ages 0-18 years. These data are linked to longitudinal registry information on labour market outcomes (2001-2012) and parental background (1980). The estimations were performed using ordinary least squares (OLS). The results showed that having an additional IRH is associated with lower log earnings (b = -0.110, 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.193; -0.026), fewer years of being employed (b = -0.018, 95% CI: -0.031; -0.005), a higher probability of receiving any social income transfers (b = 0.012, 95% CI: -0.002; 0.026) and larger social income transfers, conditional on receiving any (b = 0.085, 95% CI: 0.025; 0.145). IRHs are negatively linked to human capital accumulation, which explains a considerable part of the observed associations between IRHs and labour market outcomes. We did not find support for the hypothesis that adult health mediates the link.
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The Young Finns Study has been financially supported by the Academy of Finland [grant numbers 286284, 134309 (Eye), 126925, 121584, 124282, 129378 (Salve), 117787 (Gendi), and 41071 (Skidi), 322098]; the Social Insurance Institution of Finland; the Competitive State Research Financing of the Expert Responsibility area of Kuopio, Tampere and Turku University Hospitals [grant number X51001]; the Juho Vainio Foundation; the Paavo Nurmi Foundation; the Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research; the Finnish Cultural Foundation; the Sigrid Juselius Foundation; the Tampere Tuberculosis Foundation; the Emil Aaltonen Foundation; the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation; the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation; the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation; the Diabetes Research Foundation of Finnish Diabetes Association; EU Horizon 2020 [grant number 755320 for TAX-INOMISIS]; the European Research Council [grant number 742927 for the MULTIEPIGEN project]; and the Tampere University Hospital Supporting Foundation.

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