This chapter seeks to set out what economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative …

We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the
Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers …

Serious life events, such as the loss of a relative or the onset of a chronic condition may
influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is …

I study how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from
trend in mortality before age 5, affect later mortality. I use data for six European countries …

The relative importance of cohorts' early‐life conditions, compared to later period conditions,
on adult and old‐age mortality is not known. This article studies how cohort‐level mortality …

This paper uses the 1980 famine in Karamoja, Uganda, as a natural experiment to evaluate
its possible long-lasting cognitive and health effects. Results indicate a strong negative …

We introduce a theoretical framework that contributes to the understanding of
noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs) epidemics: even if NCDs are noninfectious …

Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of
studies to explore the long-term consequences of the fetal or childhood environment …

We investigate the relationship between aging, cognitive abilities and retirement using the
Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a longitudinal survey that …

This study investigates the relative importance of period and cohort effects in adult and
elderly mortality in Italy and Sweden in the second half of the 20th century. For this purpose …