@article{Myrskylä_22_12,
author = {Myrskylä, Mikko},
title={{The effects of shocks in early life mortality on later life expectancy and mortality compression: A cohort analysis}},
journal = {Demographic Research},
volume = {22},
number = {12},
pages = {289--320},
doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.12},
year = {2010},
abstract = {I study how shocks in cohort-level early life conditions, as represented by deviations from trend in mortality before age 5, affect later mortality. I use data for six European countries and find that shocks that increase infant mortality decrease later life expectancy between ages 5-30. The effect is strong for England and Wales but small or insignificant for other countries. Shocks that increase mortality at ages 1-5 increase life expectancy between ages 5-30 and compress the mortality distribution. For both shocks the effects are weak at older ages. These results suggest that early life conditions have a transitory effect and potentially only little influence on old-age mortality.},
URL = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol22/12/},
eprint = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol22/12/22-12.pdf}
}