measures where available. The relationship with life expectancy is significant and positive. Infant mortality correlates …

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 …

We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in … significant mortality reduction. Despite the absence of antibiotics and most vaccines, we find the results to be largely driven by …

Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumes that lives are statistical … mortality risks and policy-induced changes in risk often differ among individuals although these differences are imperfectly …

baseline mortality risk, and thus operates as the "dead anyway" effect. We suggest, however, that ambiguity aversion should … usually have a modest effect on the prevention of ambiguous mortality risks within benefit-cost analysis, and can hardly …