-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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …