This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

The initial estimates of August by industrial enterprises received by means of business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute1 showed improvement of the situation in industry. Actual changes in demand retained the previous dynamics; as a result, the achieved volumes of sales were rated...

According to business surveys of the Gaidar Institute1 carried out in May, the situation in the Russian industry changed for the better. Forecasts of changes in demand, output and employment demonstrate positive dynamics. The stocks of finished products are successfully controlled by...

Апрельские данные конъюнктурных опросов Института Гайдара показывают явное ухудшение ситуации в российской промышленности. Сокращение спроса увеличивает...

Согласно данным конъюнктурных опросов Института Гайдара1 октябрь не внес никаких принципиальных изменений ни в динамику спроса, ни в динамику выпуска...