deaths - is preferred over the pure Kaldor-Hicks approach because it implicitly welfare weights premature mortality costs … costs, not just premature mortality risk …

The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality …

lifetimes and debt neutrality and Weil on population growth and debt neutrality. It is shown that there will be debt neutrality … if and only if the sum of the rate of growth of population and the individual probability of death equals zero. If this … condition holds, non-zero rates of growth of labor productivity will not destroy debt neutrality …

fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational mobility, looking for structural breaks associated with the French …

What would a hypothetical one million US deaths in the Covid-19 epidemic mean for mortality of individuals at the … population level? To put estimates of Covid-19 mortality into perspective, we estimate age-specific mortality for an epidemic … can be valued at six to 10 trillion dollars. The age-patterns of Covid-19 mortality observed in other countries are …

remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

This paper presents and critically discusses a vast array of evidence on the determinants of mortality reductions in … in income and nutrition. We then characterize the age and cause of death profile of changes in mortality and ask what can …