particular, early nutritional conditions are instrumented by exposure to the potato famine of unprecedented severity that the …,342 individuals not exposed to severe famine during gestation and/or till age three. We compare non-parametrically the total and … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …

Responsibility for the tremendous excess mortality associated with the Great Irish Famine of 1846-51 is a continuing … administrative records. We use those records to study the Union's day-to-day functioning during the famine and to estimate mortality … the famine primarily reflects the crisis outside the workhouse's walls; the guardians and managers did reasonably well in …