the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effects of this measure on mortality … significant reduction in mortality by Covid-19 and, in particular, for age groups between 40-64 and older (with larger and more … significant effects for individuals above 50). Back of the envelope calculations indicate that 4,793 deaths were avoided, in the …

. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather … significant positive effects of PM10 concentration after the onset of the illness on COVID-19 deaths specifically for elderly … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind … direction, we show that arguably exogenous fluctuations in local air quality impact the rate of confirmed cases and deaths from …

. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …

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

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 …

We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates … as a proxy for the country-specific severity of the pandemic, we find that the average mortality rate (0.0062% per …

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 …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … associated with higher mortality. The death rate has a consistent strong positive relationship with the Gini coefficient for … of Covid-19 deaths with respect to the Gini coefficient, evaluated at sample means, is 0.9. Assuming the observed …