This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

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 paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the … gain from recent reductions in mortality in the U.S. easily doubles. …