"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the … NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. The choice to breastfeed rather than formula-feed an infant as well as the … possibility of confounding with other inputs that promote child health. This study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey …

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 … at old ages for men. -- Nutrition in early life ; famine ; longevity ; natural experiments ; survival analysis …