studies the impact of air pollution on pandemic mortality. The analysis combines a panel dataset on infant and all …-age mortality with a novel measure of air pollution based on the burning of coal in a large sample of U.S. cities. We estimate that … air pollution contributed significantly to pandemic mortality. Cities that used more coal experienced tens of thousands of …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates … 0.4 percent increase in mortality for the elderly and a 0.06 percent increase in mortality for the very young. We find …

an individual accounts retirement program. I first estimate mortality differentials by gender, race, ethnicity and level … of education using the National Longitudinal Mortality Study and document substantial differences. I then use these …

connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …