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 …

-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 show that essentially every communication equilibrium of any finite Bayesian game with two players can be …

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 …, i.e., that risks and policy-induced changes in risk are small and similar among a population. In reality, baseline …

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 …