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 …

premature death, pension policies and long-term care. -- life expectancy ; mortality ; optimal public policy …

, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious … conflicting forces - the beneficial effects on life expectancy before the second epidemiological transition and their adverse …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …