Dust to feed, Dust to grey: The effect of in-utero exposure to the Dust Bowl on old-age longevity

H Noghanibehambari, J Fletcher - 2022 - nber.org
Intensive agriculture and deep plowing resulted in top-soil erosion and dust storms during
the 1930s. These effects have been shown to affect agricultural income and land values that …

Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care

R Catalano, J Bonham, A Gemmill, T Bruckner - Epidemiology, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background:“Scarring in utero” posits that populations exposed to injurious stressors yield
birth cohorts that live shorter lives than expected from history. This argument implies a …

Pandemic influenza and gender imbalance: Mortality selection before births

K Ogasawara - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
This study uses data from the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Japan along with newly
digitized and complete census records on births and infant deaths to analyze mortality …

Reproductive suppression and longevity in human birth cohorts

KB Saxton, A Gemmill, JA Casey… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Reproductive suppression refers to, among other phenomena, the termination of
pregnancies in populations exposed to signals of death among young conspecifics …