offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

during the Great Leap Forward famine in China, and by examining the intergenerational consequences of the famine on those who …

data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal …We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … 50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. We take advantage of recently available …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …

explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the …

representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among … high school graduates may impact their health trajectory, health care consumption and life expectancy. We find large …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …