Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reducedform effect found in …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …. The non-linearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine’s effect on later life health found in … previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life leads to worse health among females fifty …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few …

. -- nutrition ; ageing ; developmental origins ; morbidity ; income ; health ; employment …

. -- nutrition ; ageing ; developmental origins ; morbidity ; income ; health ; employment …