not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased … due to an implicit assumption that number and utility of children are complements, which is a byproduct of the high …, and changes in mortality which account for 90 percent of the predicted change from 1880 to 1950"--National Bureau of …

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 …

with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location …