Mortality Crisis"). Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol related causes and among working … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and … Eastern European countries exhibit similar mortality patterns commensurate with their campaign exposure. The campaign's end …

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 …

health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … shorter gestation periods. Mortality effects are concentrated on intestinal infections and malnutrition, and are greatly … during the dry season, and for mortality in the first 6 months of life. The results seem to be driven by water scarcity per …

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …

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