strongly linked in Africa. Unilateral causality is found from energy consumption to life expectancy and child under-5 mortality …We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy … for Senegal, Morocco, Benin, DRC, Algeria, Egypt, and South Africa. At the same time, we found a bilateral causality …

This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … 60 and 69, for almost all individuals. Heterogeneous analysis indicates that the increase in mortality is stronger for … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality …

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality …

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and … mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we find that milk inspections reduced mortality from waterborne and foodborne diseases by 8 …

first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric … historical trends in infant mortality over the 20th century …

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