Long-run longevity effects of a nutritional shock early in life: the Dutch potato famine of 1846 - 1847
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 confounding issues. Methods: This paper investigates whether exposure to nutritional shocks in early life negatively affects longevity at older ages, using unique individual data and exploiting the exogenous variation implied by natural experiments. In particular, early nutritional conditions are instrumented by exposure to the potato famine of unprecedented sev... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2007 |
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Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:360 / Nutrition in early life / famine / longevity / natural experiments / survival analysis / mortality / food intake / developmental origins / fetal origins / Ernährung / Gesundheit / Sterblichkeit / Hungersnot / Kinder / Sozialgeschichte / Niederlande |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26688876 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34681 |