. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza mortality: cities in the top half of the mortality distribution …

We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … the costs of complying with COVID-19 restrictions, but only so long as excess mortality does not exceed the average by …

pension policy. This paper presents the conceptual differences between static period and dynamic cohort mortality tables …

aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for …