evidence that an increase in child mortality and Cholera deaths as well as a decrease in public spending on health care are …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

We decompose changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality … rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is … inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security … system. We find that mortality risk, when negatively correlated with entitlements, significantly lowers subjects’ willingness …

of mortality and old-age dependance. Survival is positively correlated to income but dependency is negatively correlated …