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 …

mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large … substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although …