-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> …

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 …

before. We use this discontinuity in eligibility to measure the impact of public health insurance on mortality by following … eligibility during childhood on the later life mortality of black children at ages 15-18. The estimates indicate a 13-20 percent … the mortality of white children under the expansions …

and social circumstances of less educated, have led to increased mortality from drugs, suicide, and chronic liver disease … the ability of the postulated relationships to explain the sharply differing mortality trajectories of non-Hispanic whites …, compared with other groups, and the timing of the observed mortality changes. Along the way, I raise doubts about the …

Several strands of research document the life-cycle impacts of lead exposure during the critical period of children …'s development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This … event-study analysis suggests that the impacts are more concentrated on children exposed during in-utero up to age 10. The …