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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 …
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-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 …
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This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the Netherlands. Among the older workers we focus on, a group of civil servants became eligible for retirement...
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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 …
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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 …
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analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate outcomes and exploited the heterogeneity of the … difference in geographic regression discontinuity design (DiD-GRDD) to compare mortality rates in 2020 of Lombardy … analysis shows that mortality rates in Lombardy during the first wave were higher by 1-2 percentage points among the population …
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The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise. …
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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 …
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