mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that … follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several threshold properties of the model, for such a shock can severely … retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate …

-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 …

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 …

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 …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends … strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that labor …

myeloma mortality rate using longitudinal country-level data on 26 countries during the period 2005-2009. Countries that had … larger increases in the number of chemotherapy regimens had larger subsequent declines in myeloma mortality rates …, controlling for other factors. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation reduced the age-adjusted myeloma cancer mortality …