explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic … conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the effect of current health care facilities. Specific attention is paid to …

effects of mental health support, I find that it lowers the mortality risk for women. The results for men point toward lower …This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Allowing for time-varying treatment effects, I find no impact … of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run and in particular for men. This is …

their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor … economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 …

by the fetal origins hypothesis. We argue that while the conventional health capital model is irreconcilable with fetal … origins of late-in-life health outcomes, the more recent health deficit model can generate shock amplification consistent with … the hypothesis. In order to discuss human health over the life cycle from conception to death, we develop a theory of …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

registers, we estimate that the average duration of program exposure in infancy led to a 1.54% point decline in the risk of … infant death (23% of baseline risk) and a 2.37% decline in the risk of dying by age 75 (6.5% of baseline risk) …

determining child health and mortality this effect diminishes or disappears when health knowledge is introduced as an explanatory … variable. It emerges that health knowledge has large and positive effects on both child mortality and health when instrumented …This paper studies factors that influence child health in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau. This environment is …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a … region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced … this period, allowing the authors to assess the permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. The analysis controls …