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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

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Birth in times of war : an investigation of health, mortality and social class using historical clinical records

Geiger, Nadine; Wichert, Sebastian - 2019

While World War II (WWII) is often employed as natural experiment to identify long-term effects of adverse early … weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

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The health burden of e-waste : the impact of e-waste dumping sites on child mortality

Lovo, Stefania; Rawlings, Samantha B. - 2022

mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

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Let the little children come to me

Portela, Miguel; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018

We document the relationship of a set of individual choices - including parenthood, marital state, and income - with an individual's cause of death. Using the data set of the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS-LS) which follows one percent of the population of England and...

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The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century U.S. fertility and mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023

infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

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The rule of law : measurement and deep roots

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2015

This paper does three things. First, based on a limited number of theoretically established dimensions, it proposes a new de facto indicator for the rule of law. It is the first such indicator to take the quality of legal norms explicitly into account. Second, using this indicator we shed new...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...

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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters

Costa, Samia - 2012

Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...

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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

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

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The effect of public corruption on Covid-19 fatality rate : a cross-country examination

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and significantly associated with COVID-19 human costs....

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