) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

Numerous studies report that early childhood biological stress impairs health in later adulthood. Overwhelmingly these … studies are based on modern data, when health conditions are quite good by historical standards. Potentially much can be …

A lack of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) equity analysis in recent years has led to a substantive gap in the … and distribution of, and the trends in, both MNCH mortality and intervention coverage. The findings shed light on …. Analyses of mortality over time allow the backtrack of mortality progress, enabling the evaluation of past policies' influences …

mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …

older adults. Using functional neuroimaging, we find that aging is associated with a shift in the brain areas that respond … dependence in older adults. Activation in this striatal region was relatively insensitive to delay in older but not younger … adults. Since the dopamine system is believed to support associative learning about future rewards over time, our observed …