Kurzfassung

Being born in relatively bad circumstances (e.g. in a year in which there were particularly strong epidemics, or in which climatic or economic circumstances increased the chances of dying in the first year of life) may have an effect that lasts throughout the lifetime.
We investigate the mortality throughout the lifetime of cohorts characterized by higher infant mortalities than previous/later years. There are two competing hypothesis that we investigate: such cohorts might have lower...Being born in relatively bad circumstances (e.g. in a year in which there were particularly strong epidemics, or in which climatic or economic circumstances increased the chances of dying in the first year of life) may have an effect that lasts throughout the lifetime.
We investigate the mortality throughout the lifetime of cohorts characterized by higher infant mortalities than previous/later years. There are two competing hypothesis that we investigate: such cohorts might have lower mortality rates later in life, since the people with the poorest health already died very young. Or these cohorts might have higher mortality rates later in life, since the survivors suffer from “scarring” effects of the bad circumstances on their health. For this study, we use data from the Human Mortality Database on several developed countries.
Similarly, we study effects of bad early-life circumstances on later-life health and economic outcomes by combining infant mortality data from the Human Mortality Database to data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
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