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

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

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

due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence …, rising longevity - through falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies … over the period 1997-2009. Using (dynamic) panel data models, we find that age, mortality and five-year survival rates have …

mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence, rising longevity - through … falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies is that they use cross … dynamic panel data models, we find that age, mortality rate and five-year survival rates have a positive impact on per …

that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …

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 …