Post <blockquote><blockquote>Understanding their contribution is also complicated by the AEJ paper by Black, Devereux, and Salvanes that looks at the exact same question in Norway and does not find effects on adult outcomes. The AEJ certainly came out first. Why does one get into AER and the other AEJ? Black et al. describe the AER paper as follows: "Most closely related to our own work is work done concurrently by Persson and Rossin-Slater (2014), who look at the death of a family member in utero on the short- and long-run health outcomes of children in Sweden. Using a similar identification strategy comparing children in utero for the death of a close family member to those who experience a similar death immediately after birth, the authors find that in utero exposure to stress through the death of a family member affects health at birth and later psychological conditions. While we use a slightly different identification strategy, examining only the death of grandparents of the child in utero to avoid any other confounding factors associated with the death, such as changes in resources, we view this paper as a complement to our own—despite their finding of longer run effects on mental health, we find no significant effects on education or future labor market success."</blockquote> Which paper gets it right?</blockquote>

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