Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity

Gabriella Conti, Christopher Hansman, James J. Heckman, Matthew F. X. Novak, Angela Ruggiero, Stephen J. Suomi

NBER Working Paper No. 18002
Issued in April 2012

---- Acknowledgements -----

This work was supported in part by the American Bar Foundation, the JB & MK Pritzker Family Foundation, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, NICHD R37-HD065072, NIA R01-AG034679, a project with the Becker Friedman Institute for Research and Economics funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), and an anonymous funder. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the funders or commentators mentioned here. We are very grateful to Ruth A. Woodward (D.V.M.) for providing us with the medical records, and to Ernest B. Davis for providing us with the behavioral observations. We also thank Meiping Sun for her help in the data collection process in the first stage of this process. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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