16:00 - 17:30
Meeting
Room: Zoom
Panel chair: Vicky Fouka
Insuring Against Hunger? Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposure to the Dutch Famine
Raluca L. Pahontu 1, Gerda Hooijer 2, David Rueda 1
1 Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford
2 Princeton University, Princeton

Malnutrition is one of the greatest global challenges affecting more than 900 million individuals in developing and developed countries across the world. While previous studies have established that malnutrition has serious and lasting negative consequences on individuals' health, education, and labor market outcomes, very little is known about its effects on individuals' political views later in life. This study represents an initial effort to investigate the long-term political consequences of in-utero exposure to malnutrition on demands for social insurance. To this end, we leverage the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944/1945 as a natural experiment given its severity, suddenness, and clear temporal and spatial boundaries. We link rich administrative data to present-day public opinion data from the Netherlands. Using a difference-in-differences framework and causal mediation analysis, we examine whether in-utero exposure to famines increases individual demand for social insurance later in life.


Reference:
Th-P1-02
Session:
Historical Drivers of Inequality, Institutions and Voting
Presenter/s:
Raluca L. Pahontu
Topic:
EU Politics
Presentation type:
Oral presentation
Room:
Zoom
Date:
Thursday, 18 June
Time:
16:00 - 17:30
Session times:
16:00 - 17:30

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