The profitability of life insurance offerings is contingent on accurate projections and pricing of mortality risk. The … COVID-19 pandemic created significant uncertainty, with dire mortality predictions from early forecasts resulting in … from Compulife. We estimate event-study models that exploit well-established variation in the COVID-19 mortality rate based …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality …

period and dynamic cohort mortality tables, estimates the differences in life expectancy between both tables using data from …

the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …