-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in … suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal …

to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in infant and maternal health. We find that birth outcomes vary non …-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low … birth weight and preterm birth than those in the bottom ventile. However, unlike birth outcomes, infant mortality varies …

was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022. Data accompanying this paper can be found at <a href="http://www.nber.org/gould">www.nber.org/gould</a> …

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and pos mortality in the three decades prior to the … the mortality environment a have worsened (or at least did not improve), connected with factors such as urba …, mortality was not improving in the antebellum period and was deterio York City. For the United States and for New York State …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor … economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 …

We expand on earlier studies investigating the links between early health and later health by including different … dimensions of early-life health and multiple life course outcomes consisting of the age of onset of serious cardiovascular … diseases (CVDs) and multiple job-related health outcomes. The four dimensions of childhood health are mental, physical, self …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …