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

that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …

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 …

policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …

policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …