was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022. Data accompanying this paper can be found at <a href="http://www.nber.org/gould">www.nber.org/gould</a> …

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and pos mortality in the three decades prior to the … the mortality environment a have worsened (or at least did not improve), connected with factors such as urba …, mortality was not improving in the antebellum period and was deterio York City. For the United States and for New York State …

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 … health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …, exogenous improvements in health due to technical advances associated with the epidemiological transition appear to have …

convergence of adult mortality rates among the rich of the world, particularly men. Globalization would do much for global health … throughout the now poor world. Many see related threats to public health from current globalization. Multilateral and bilateral … Services may restrict the freedom of signatories to shape their own health delivery systems, and it remains unclear whether …

Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing …. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able … relating education gradients in mortality with measures medical innovation. We focus on overall mortality and cancer mortality …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is … on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition …

both economic and health outcomes, some of which are driven by the behavioral choices of the less educated …