Like the authors talk about, this also happened during the 1918 flu, with the 1919 cohort being poorer from birth than (at least in the US). As much as I wish differently, this casts doubt on the whole premise of cohort discontinuity studies of the effects of pandemics! (1/2)
Hampton Gaddy
New paper finally published! Using data on 78 million births from 15 countries, we found that babies conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic have a different parental socioeconomic composition than expected had the pandemic not occurred. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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