similar trends but a steeper gradient when using cohorts. For middle-aged men, we find a cessation of mortality improvements …

cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant mortality and life expectancy. We analyze several alternative measures … health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …

Mortality is a crucial dimension of wellbeing and inequality in a population, and mortality trends have been at the … core of public debates in many Western countries. In this paper, we provide the first analysis of mortality inequality in … Canada and compare its development to trends in the U.S. We find strong reductions in mortality rates across both genders and …

The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in … had larger declines in the premature mortality rate, controlling for changes in the incidence rate …

bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico …

on U.S. regulations and net trade flows among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, for 130 manufacturing industries from 1977 to …

After signing ten free trade agreements between 1993 and 2001, Mexico as a world leader in foreign trade policy … agreements (RTAs) arises from a consistency test, but also from the ability of a country to administer them. Mexico's multiple … model of equilibrium, along with a political economy approach of why Mexico seeks multiple RTAs as its foreign trade policy …