effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …

-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 …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate …