We study the causal effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on hospitalization and mortality for Brazilian … discharges, and mortality for a period of 17 years. Using a difference-in-differences research design that compares laid …% increase in the probability of male in-patient admission to public hospitals, and a 34% increase in the risk of male mortality …

program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …

This study examines changes in levels and patterns of maternal mortality in Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1994 and 2003. The … research was carried out in five sub-regions of Pernambuco using the Reproductive Age Mortality Survey (RAMOS) method and based … on death certificates of women of reproductive age registered in the local System of Information on Mortality. In …