%0 Report
        %A Chen, Xi
        %T Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults: A Research Note
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15511
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15511
        %X 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.

        %K early life circumstances
%K old-age health
%K famine
%K long-term health
%K meta-analysis
%K China