This study estimates the effects of the 1970 Ancash earthquake on human capital
accumulation on the affected and subsequent generation, 37 years after the shock, using …

We exploit the quasi-random spatial and temporal nature of ground tremors to evaluate the
long-term impact of the 1988 earthquake on educational outcomes among affected children …

This paper investigates the effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on birth
outcomes—specifically, the log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight—using a …

We examine the effect of radiation exposure in utero, resulting from nuclear weapon testing
in the 1950s and early 1960s, on long-run outcomes of Norwegian children. Exposure to low …

The fetal origins hypothesis posits that adverse prenatal exposures, particularly malnutrition,
increase the risk of poor adult health. Studies using famine as a natural experiment to test …

Abstract Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) has lifelong consequences on brain
development and cognitive function. We studied the lifelong developmental trajectories of …

Using individual-level retrospective data on early-life hunger experience from China, we
investigate the long-term effects of early nutritional deprivation on one's own and adult …

The current measures of cognitive functioning in adulthood do not indicate a long-term
association with prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine. However, whether such association …

We use newly collected individual‐level hunger recall information from the China Family
Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later‐life health. We …

Based on a random sample from 1 percent population survey data of 2005, this paper
studies the impacts of Tangshan Earthquake on the educational attainment and subsequent …