We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly …

. Mortality from all causes during the pandemic was elevated 26 percent for working-age adults (18-64), as compared to 18 percent …

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 …

daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …

We follow Medicare cohorts over time and space to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on elderly … eight years past the storm by 1.74 percentage points. Migration to lower-mortality regions explains most of this survival … increase. Migrants to low- versus high-mortality regions look similar at baseline, but migrants' subsequent mortality is 0 …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …