Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during … at old ages for men. -- Nutrition in early life ; famine ; longevity ; natural experiments ; survival analysis …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during … studies have demonstrated long-Run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and …

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 …

The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of … improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first … 1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured …