unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

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 …

terms of its effect on infant mortality. We exploit that the program affects child mortality only via bed net usage. We find … that Malawi's ITN distribution campaign reduced child mortality by 1 percentage point, which corresponds to about 30% of … the total reduction in infant mortality over the study period …

study the causal effects of onshore oil spills on neonatal and infant mortality rates. We use spatial data from the Nigerian … after nearby oil spills. We find that nearby oil spills double the neonatal mortality rate. These effects are fairly uniform …

-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 …