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exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in … the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing the previously and subsequently well-nourished Dutch … and a reduction in energy-adjusted protein intake. Moreover, we account for selective mortality using a copula …
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Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during … at old ages for men. -- Nutrition in early life ; famine ; longevity ; natural experiments ; survival analysis …
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Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during … studies have demonstrated long-Run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and …
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the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the … Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing the previously and subsequently well-nourished Dutch population to the … energy-adjusted protein intake. Moreover, we account for selective mortality using a copula-based approach and newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665047
provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily …Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably …
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may exceed famine effects by at least a factor three. …
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malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub … the observed malnutrition and mortality outcomes. Secondly, to address unobserved but correlated factors, we exploit … the observed sound anthropometric outcomes around Lake Victoria. In contrast, high mortality rates rest upon an adverse …
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The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of … improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first … 1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured …
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We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average,...
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The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of … improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first … 1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475604