, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using … behind. Each component we introduce plays a significant role in accounting for these differences, with mortality being most …

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for … financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from …

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 …Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent …

at age 40 to 50. However, we show that among infants, children, and young adults, mortality has been falling more quickly … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults …

mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both …