We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …