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 …

our finding that African Americans experienced larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of …

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …

We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … VLBW cutoff have better short- and long-term health, and higher math test scores in 9th grade. We next investigate …

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 …

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

of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences of open … on adult health, human capital, and labor market outcomes, this suggests open-air waste burning imposes significant costs …

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings …

Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline … on average, the program was associated with a 37 to 48% decline in diarrheal disease deaths among children (over 23 …