example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

small and statistically insignificant. Â The likely reason that the NPIs were not more successful in curtailing mortality is …

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Epidemic provide plausible upper bounds for …

evidence that an increase in child mortality and Cholera deaths as well as a decrease in public spending on health care are …

more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …