This paper explores the long-term impact on mortality of exposure to early-life hardship. Using survival analysis, we …

association with mortality is much less clear, with essentially no significant relationship to conflict detected using these data …

The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of … improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first …

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 …

Understanding mortality crises is an important part of understanding some fundamental aspects of preindustrial …