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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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association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild's over-all and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single … animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371912
association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild's over-all and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single … animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747354
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277317
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566356
girls. These findings demonstrate that climate change harms maternal health, increases prenatal mortality, and reduces …
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Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities...
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The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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