Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …

food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of …

mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … effect on mortality but that state and regional economic conditions are stronger predictors. I also leverage county …

We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U … jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a similar … forecasts for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …

findings suggest that mortality-related mechanisms drive late-life changes in well-being and highlight the need for further …