indicated by her height, BMI and anemia status. Child health is indicated by mortality risk and anthropometric failure. We find …

part of SHARE in Europe in 2009, with administrative data on food supply (caloric rations) in post-war Germany. The data …

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase … in mortality rates which cannot be dismissed as a statistical artefact. Next, the paper discusses various theories …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of …

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. …

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 …

This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality … increase in the level of volunteering. Based on a comparison of mortality between the municipalities with no or little loss of … that were not hit by the earthquake, I find that volunteering significantly reduced elderly mortality. Close attention is …

mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … effect on mortality but that state and regional economic conditions are stronger predictors. I also leverage county …