We provide the first evidence that spatial variation in all-cause mortality risk is capitalized into US housing prices …. Using a hedonic framework, we recover the annual implicit cost of a 0.1 percentage-point reduction in mortality risk among …, suggesting that the housing market provides an alternative, substantially cheaper channel to reducing mortality risk …

We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in … patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality were similar in both countries, but adult and elderly mortality … rates declined most rapidly during the period when inequality increased. Changes in the rate of mortality decline in the US …

rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 …

, consisting of all annuity policies sold by a large U.K. insurance company since the early 1980s, to analyze mortality differences …-post mortality and annuity policy characteristics, such as whether the annuity will make payments to the estate in the event of an … untimely death and whether the payments from the annuity rise over time. These mortality patterns are consistent with models of …

emissions in the city. These events are compared to detailed new weekly mortality data. My results show that acute pollution … mortality effects of pollution. As a result, success in reducing the infectious diseases burden in London in the 20th century …

that, although initially, vaccines have little effect on new infections they strongly reduce the share of mortality out of … hypothesis that the ratio of current mortality to lagged infections is decreasing in the total number of vaccines per one hundred … conclusion from the statistical analysis is that, passed a certain threshold, vaccines moderate the share of mortality from a …