malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub … the observed malnutrition and mortality outcomes. Secondly, to address unobserved but correlated factors, we exploit … the observed sound anthropometric outcomes around Lake Victoria. In contrast, high mortality rates rest upon an adverse …

mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth …. Statistically, long-term effects of famine on mortality become only visible when changes in the frailty distribution of cohorts are …