Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in … late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of … increases a woman's probability of having a CS. Also, delivery-related birth outcomes improve: maternal mortality, birth …

-life mortality using data from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study of individuals born in 1915-1929. The results suggest a relationship …

development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our research design exploits the variation in the timing of the deployment … mortality rates. According to our point estimates, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would lower the overall mortality rate by 1.4 percent, the adult mortality rate by 1.9 percent, and the elderly …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …

This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment …‐level worker characteristics, such as firm‐level average mortality rates for mortality during the four years prior to the year of … observation. On the mechanism driving the effect of job loss on mortality, we provide evidence for an effect running through …

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …