frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza mortality: cities in the top half of the mortality distribution …

We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to … 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 … to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for those without; from 2019 to 2021, mortality rose for both groups …

Increases in "deaths of despair" have been hypothesized to provide an important source of the adverse mortality … declines raised death rates and contributed to the adverse mortality trends experienced by prime-age non-Hispanic Whites and … should be both broader and different than previously recognized: still including drug mortality and possibly alcohol deaths …

access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black infants (16%) than for … White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show that the effect of …