Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/296702 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP23/28
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Since the 1970s, famines have been widely invoked as natural experiments in research into the long-term impact of foetal exposure to nutritional shocks. That research has produced compelling evidence for a robust link between foetal exposure and the odds of developing schizophrenia. However, the implications of that research for the human cost of famines in the longer run has not been investigated. We address the connection between foetal origins and schizophrenia with that question in mind. The impact turns out to be very modest - much less than one per cent of the associated famine death tolls - across a selection of case studies.
Subjects: 
famine
schizophrenia
foetal origins
JEL: 
I1
N10
Q54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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