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Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline … today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing an abrupt, large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 … that increased the share of Mexico's population receiving chlorinated water from 55% to 85% within six months. We find that …
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measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …
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We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
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We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find no health benefits from additional treatments...
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mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We … identify mortality rates at least twice the Canadian average and find exceptionally high mortality rates for young Indigenous … women and girls - up to four times the Canadian average at certain ages. We show mortality rates are even higher on reserve …
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The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
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redistribution or total spending. Based on comprehensive archival mortality statistics since 1890, I then demonstrate that the … observed shifts in representation and public finances were associated with substantial declines in child mortality by 15% and … in mortality from infectious diseases, the major killer of the time, by 10-15%. …
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While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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We document the relationship of a set of individual choices - including parenthood, marital state, and income - with an individual's cause of death. Using the data set of the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS-LS) which follows one percent of the population of England and...
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infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …
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