TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gertler,Paul
AU  - Gracner,Tadeja
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Sweet Life: The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - Health
KW  - jelc
KW  - Health Behavior
KW  - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth
N1  - December 2022; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We show that sugar-rich diet early in life has large adverse effects on the health and economic well-being of adults more than fifty years later. Excessive sugar intake early in life led to higher prevalence of chronic inflammation, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and arthritis. It also decreased post-secondary schooling, having a skilled occupation, and accumulating above median wealth. We identified elevated sugar consumption across lifespan as a likely pathway of impact. Exploiting the end of the post-WWII rationing of sugar and sweets in 1953 in the United Kingdom, we used a regression discontinuity design to identify these effects
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w30799
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30799
ER  -