The long-run heterogeneous effects of a cholera pandemic on stature: Evidence from industrializing Japan.
Econ Hum Biol
; 41: 100968, 2021 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1065028
ABSTRACT
The recent COVID-19 pandemic poses the general question on how infectious diseases can persistently affect human health. A growing body of literature has found a significant amount of evidence on the long-term adverse effects of infectious diseases, such as influenza, typhoid fever, and yellow fever. However, we must be careful about the fact that little is known about the long-term consequences of the acute diarrheal disease pandemic cholera - Vibrio cholerae bacillus - which still threatens the health of the population in many developing countries. To bridge this gap in the body of knowledge, we utilized unique census-based data on army height at age 20 in early 20th-century Japan, with a difference-in-differences estimation strategy using regional variation in the intensity of cholera pandemics. We found that early-life exposure to a cholera pandemic had heterogeneous stunting effects on the final height of men; the magnitude of the stunting effects increased as the intensity of exposure increased.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Body Height
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Cholera
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
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Young adult
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Econ Hum Biol
Journal subject:
Biology
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Social Sciences
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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