For health outcomes, is poverty destiny? The authors explore this question for life expectancy in Africa, where health …

Governments can significantly reduce earthquake mortality by implementing and enforcing quake-proof construction … actual earthquakes, mortality is lower in countries with higher earthquake propensity, where the payoffs to mortality … political incentives of governments to provide public goods to citizens. The opportunity costs of earthquake mortality …

This paper studies how potential work migrants infer mortality rates from incidents of migrant deaths. In the context … implies large changes in mortality rates perceived by potential migrants. Models of learning fallacies better explain the …

Persian Gulf countries. The experiment provides them with information on wages and mortality incidences in their choice … overestimate their mortality rate abroad, and that information on mortality incidences lowers this expectation. Potential migrants … experiment, the study estimates migration elasticities of 0.7 in expected earnings and 0.5 in expected mortality. The experiment …

This study contributes to the literature on legal institutions and determinants of adult mortality. The paper explores … the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have …

insignificant impacts on mortality. The exogenous sources of job losses in a U.S. county is the tradable job losses driven by … groups, and for almost all categories of mortality. Three important exceptions are Alzheimer's, poisoning, and homicide …

This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference … for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using … adult mortality is higher for women with first-born girls, especially the poor and uneducated with limited access to health …

The authors use a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and …