This article presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes in a … region of northwestern Tanzania. We study a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-1994 who were traced and … assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we control for a wide range of child and adult …

disproportionately improve health outcomes among the poorest children and, within that group, among children affected by adult mortality …In Tanzania, a poor country experiencing a severe AIDS epidemic, the children whose health is hit hardest by the death …, oral rehydration salts, and access to health care. The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many …

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 …. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence suggesting long-run effects of early nutritional stresses on mortality …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

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 …

We expand on earlier studies investigating the links between early health and later health by including different … dimensions of early-life health and multiple life course outcomes consisting of the age of onset of serious cardiovascular … diseases (CVDs) and multiple job-related health outcomes. The four dimensions of childhood health are mental, physical, self …