mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda … related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides … preferences and choices related to individual health and fertility. These findings further suggest that at least one of the two …

expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … utilization in Sweden, so the cost per life-year gained from the introduction of new drugs was quite low. …

This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … mortality effects due to changes in physician density. One additional physician per 1,000 of population reduces infant mortality …

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 …