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drug use and violence. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized the consumption of all illicit drugs. In this paper, we focus on … determining the short, medium, and long-term impact of Portuguese decriminalization on mortality due to drug use and homicides …
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to achieve the SDGs so far were insufficient and uneven across countries. In Portugal, such insufficiencies are evidenced ….9.1 “Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution” due to shortness and irregularity of the available data series … in the population of various municipalities in Portugal, from 2010 to 2019. Linear Mixed Models were used for data …
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The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between alcohol-related mortality and social status among men in …,038,654 records of men 35-74 years old, of whom 3824 died of causes explicitly related to alcohol abuse. Standardized mortality ratios … in alcohol-related mortality increased but only between 1981/82 and 1991/92; and among those 35-59 years old only for the …
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and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with …
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This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment …-level worker characteristics, such as firm-level average mortality rates for mortality during the four years prior to the year of … observation. On the mechanism driving the effect of job loss on mortality, we provide evidence for an effect running through …
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probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …
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-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …
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I study the association between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality, and investigate how well income … and education act as proxy measures for ability. The risk of premature mortality is estimated using Cox proportional … mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of …
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time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …
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