. This paper uses previously unpublished archival data on infant mortality and anthropometric studies of children conducted … mortality, birth weight, child height and adult stature were recorded from approximately 1940 to the late 1960s. While this … period of physical growth was followed by stagnation in heights and an increase in adult male mortality, it appears that the …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain increased mortality among …We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of …

Non-contractible quality dimensions are at risk of degradation when the provision of public services is privatized … opening to private provision affected mortality rates – an important and not easily contractible quality dimension – using a … competition significantly improved non-contractible quality as measured by mortality rates. It also reduced the cost per resident …

all result from individual decisions. Parents face a trade-off between the number of children they have and the spending … they can afford on each of them in childhood. These childhood development spending will determine children longevity when … second trade-off in allocating their time between increasing their own human capital and rearing children. The model displays …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth … by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behaviour, higher …

Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990 …s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. We examine whether competition led to better outcomes for … and space to identify the impact of competition. Using data on mortality as a measure of hospital quality and exploiting …