want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a … in mortality between those two samples is to be attributed to the way nursing homes are designed and organised. Using … matching methods, we observe excess mortality in Belgium, France, Germany Luxembourg, Switzerland, Estonia and Czech Republic …

The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history … more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …

mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … mortality for women. -- compulsory schooling ; education ; mortality ; Europe … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large …

Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We draw on an instrumental variable strategy exploiting individual level information …