We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality … register 1995-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that at least half of the …

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

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 …

age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life … recent widening of mortality rates between rich and poor due to lifestyle-related diseases does not explain much of the rise … poor, made initial differences in lifestyle-related mortality more consequential via survivability. …

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

with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …