The Great Tōhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans …

. Exploiting the panel structure of the data, we document that the occurrence of an earthquake retarded institutional transition …

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured … process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010 -2011 as our case study. Uniquely for this … economic recovery after the earthquake, but delayed payments were less affective and cash settlement of claims were more …

-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline …

generations model, using stochastic mortality projections as inputs. In a traditional pension scheme with no automatic longevity …

The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case …. In 1887 the mortality rates in Norway were similar to those of developing countries today. During the next 34 years …, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant mortality fell by 40 percent. Investigating the relationship between health …

study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period … that I studied, and that my estimates are completely insensitive to the inclusion or exclusion of infant mortality …

mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that … retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate … inequality under nuclear family arrangements. Pooling mortality risks with equal treatment of all children may fend off, or even …