Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265732 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15511
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in utero exposures from childhood exposures to a wide range of environments. We then leverage the growing number of studies of the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss potential mechanisms. Recent studies assembling multiple domains of early life circumstances are evaluated to better understand how various circumstances may coalesce and manifest in shaping long-term health.
Subjects: 
early life circumstances
old-age health
famine
long-term health
meta-analysis
China
JEL: 
I14
J14
J13
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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