positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

in mortality over time and in particular the relationship between mortality and labor force participation, thinking of … mortality as one indicator of health that is comparable across countries and over time in the same country. We then consider how … mortality is related to other indicators of health status, in particular self-assessed health and then how trends in DI …

incentives. We study how three changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2004-2005 have affected daily all-cause mortality. Our … first main result is that mortality decreased by 16 percent the day before the beginning of expected tax reductions. Second …

avoidable mortality from IHD.This is important, as the modernization of the East German health sector included a considerable …

compared to West Germany. Further, decreases in West German mortality rates are explainable to a larger degree by observable …

This essay looks at and critiques analyses of the causes of mortality decline by three scholars namely: P.E Razzell … believes inoculation against smallpox was the main cause of mortality decline while McKeown believes that the virulence of the …

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 examines the influence of economic upturns and downturns on suicide mortality rate of men in Russian regions …