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 … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …

. First, we document the magnitude of rural-urban disparities in child nutritional status and under-five mortality across all … entirely mirror the gap in under-five mortality. The most striking difference between the two is in the Latin American and … Caribbean region, where the gap in stunting is more than 1.5 times higher than that in mortality. On average, the rural …