low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the … probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician at gestational week 37. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity … use of midwifery care for low-risk deliveries. …

analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …

-life mortality using data from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study of individuals born in 1915-1929. The results suggest a relationship …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

had a significant immediate effect on the dynamics of infant mortality and crude death rates. The findings suggest that a … reduction in infant mortality or crude death rates exhibited a positive effect on growth in income per capita and increased …