[HOY, RECORDATORIO] Seminario Job Market Economía PUJ: Camila Sáez (UC – Davis)

[Nicolas Alejandro Lillo Bustos]

Estimados colegas, junto con saludarlos, los invito al Seminario de Economía del Job Market del Departamento de Economía de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana que se realizará hoy. Los detalles, a continuación:

 

• Invitado: Camila Sáez (UC – Davis)
• Sitio personal: https://camilasaez.weebly.com/
• Título: Long-term impacts of early-life exposure to pneumonia (link al paper)
• Abstract: This paper studies the effect of sulfa drugs, the first widely used antibiotic, on mortality and exploits the introduction of sulfa drugs to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life outcomes in Chile during the first half of the twentieth century. Using new yearly data by province, which include causes of deaths, I estimate the effect of sulfa drug adoption on mortality. I find that sulfa drugs resulted in an important drop in maternal mortality, pneumonia mortality, and meningitis mortality. Additionally, I exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs to identify the impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life outcomes, using an intensity of treatment research design. My results show that exposure to sulfa drugs, and thereby less exposure to pneumonia during the year of one's birth, led to a statistically significant improvement in education and employment for men. For years of schooling, one standard deviation decrease in pneumonia exposure (mortality) is estimated to have resulted in an increase of 0.5 years in schooling for men, an increase of seven percentage points in the probability of completing primary school and a three percentage points in completing secondary school. For employment, being born in an environment with less incidence of pneumonia is associated with a 2.8 percent increase in the likelihood of being employed.
• Link zoom: https://javeriana-edu-co.zoom.us/j/81113923377
• Hora: 12:30-14:00
• Día: Viernes 5 de febrero de 2021.

 

Atentamente,

 

Nicolás A. Lillo Bustos, Phd.

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Bogotá, Colombia

 

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