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 …

Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While we …

those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a …

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 …

infant and child mortality on the other vanishes altogether if we look at the relationship between growth and the absolute … rate of decline in infant and child mortality. In effect, the correlation is between the level of infant mortality and the …

deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of income inequality on the rate of decline of mortality over time, on … geographical pattens of mortality, and on individual-level mortality. Much of the literature needs to be treated skeptically, if …

populations above mortality-minimizing bodyweight is not clearly greater in countries with higher overweight and obesity rates (as …

-specific policies introduced by competing risks of mortality. The incentive to invest in prevention against one cause of death depends … than the direct medical reduction in mortality: it affects the incentives to fight other diseases so the overall reduction … in mortality will, in general, be larger than that predicted by the direct medical effects. We discuss evidence of these …

estimate the impact of infant formula on infant mortality, we pair country-specific data from the annual corporate reports of … finding is that the availability of formula increased infant mortality by 9.4 per 1000 births, 95%CI [3.6, 15.6] among mothers …

Historically, improvements in municipal water quality reduced mortality substantially in wealthy countries. However …% within 18 months. On average, the program reduced childhood diarrheal disease mortality rates by 50%. However, age …