constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying …There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is …-college educated that summarize the transitions into and out of opioid addiction as well as to a deadly overdose. The structural model …

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and have a close proxy for addiction to illicit opioids. We find that, if at … least one parent is using illicit opioids, the likelihood of the child using increases from 1.1 to 6.1%. For prescription … opioids, we observe an increase from 4.6 to 7.7%. Both associations are stable and do not change when controlling for …

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase … in mortality rates which cannot be dismissed as a statistical artefact. Next, the paper discusses various theories …

mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth … group. Cohorts born in Finland during the Great Finnish Famine are highly heterogeneous in their distribution of deaths …