individuallevel data to investigate effects of pollution on infant mortality, fetal deaths, low birth weight and prematurity in a …

infant mortality in Turkey using variation across provinces and over time in the adoption of natural gas as a cleaner fuel … infant mortality in Turkey. In particular, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would cause the infant mortality rate to decline by 4 percent, which could result in 348 infant lives saved in 2011 …

due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … within-state changes in mortality in non-winter months as an additional control group. Our estimates suggest that reductions … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …

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 …

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 …