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 …

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 …

The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case …. In 1887 the mortality rates in Norway were similar to those of developing countries today. During the next 34 years …, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant mortality fell by 40 percent. Investigating the relationship between health …

for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

. We estimate that a one standard deviation increase in judicial claims increases the all-cause mortality rate by between 0 ….10 and 0.23 standard deviations. Increases in mortality are pervasive across causes, with the largest increase in deaths from …

isolation index and mortality, which is much stronger in Eastern countries. While all of our pooled countries estimates ranged … between a 20 to 30% increase in the mortality hazard for the socially isolated, that number jumps to 45% for the Eastern … observe. Up to 13 percent of the effect of baseline social isolation on mortality can be imputed to the combined one …

. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …