Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2017
What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine … environment is associated with poor health into adulthood - a scarring effect. The second: famine survivors do not themselves … before, during and after the Great Irish Famine (1845-52), one of modern history's most severe famine episodes, suggests that …