This study reveals the lasting toll of racial violence on Black Americans’ longevity. Researchers find that Black babies whose mothers were pregnant during a local lynching lived about 3.7 months less as adults, on average.
This study investigates how changing one’s racial classification, specifically, passing as white, affected old-age longevity for African Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era.
This study provides strong evidence that a father’s level of education has a measurable impact on his children’s longevity.
This study explores how birth order affects longevity, finding that later-born siblings live 1–3 months less than their earlier-born counterparts.
Exposure to lead in water pipes during early life significantly reduces later-life male longevity.
The Rockefeller Sanitation Commission’s hookworm eradication campaign in the American South during the 1910s led to an increase of 1 month in later-life longevity for those fully exposed in early life.
Early-life exposure to County Health Departments (CHDs), which provided affordable healthcare in underserved areas, is linked to about 0.9 months of additional longevity for those exposed in-utero up to age 4.
This study examines the long-term benefits of early-life exposure to city-wide water filtration systems introduced in 25 major American cities in the early 20th century.
This study finds that being born during periods with high infant mortality, reflecting poor disease environments and limited healthcare access, is linked to higher mortality rates later in life, particularly after age 70.
This study finds that boys born in New England counties hit hard by the textile industry collapse in the 1920s–30s lived about 3.6 months less if they stayed in those areas.