with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by …

This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in … the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss … how various circumstances may coalesce and manifest in shaping long-term health …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

registers, we estimate that the average duration of program exposure in infancy led to a 1.54% point decline in the risk of … infant death (23% of baseline risk) and a 2.37% decline in the risk of dying by age 75 (6.5% of baseline risk) …

negative health consequences beyond birth outcomes; we document large increases in children's hospitalisations and medical …

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 …. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence suggesting long-run effects of early nutritional stresses on mortality …

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 …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

the English. In contrast, age specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries with an even higher risk among the … Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher immediate risk of new disease onset compared to … English after age 65. Our second aim explains large financial gradients in mortality in the two countries. Among 55-64 year …