bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have … causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces …

. First, we document the magnitude of rural-urban disparities in child nutritional status and under-five mortality across all … entirely mirror the gap in under-five mortality. The most striking difference between the two is in the Latin American and … Caribbean region, where the gap in stunting is more than 1.5 times higher than that in mortality. On average, the rural …

probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …

disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference …-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the reform. We find that late tracking did reduce disparities in mortality around … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …

This paper examines the determinants of very low birth weight infant (or neonatal) mortality using the Taiwan National … their mortality, so the Cox proportional hazard model is used to analyze the very low birth weight infant mortality rate. In … the preceding five years to observe the effect of a physicianś and hospitalś medical experience on the mortality rate of …

Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in in- fant mortality in Sub … contrast, in highly malarious rural areas where bednet coverage reached high levels, above 75% of households, infant mortality … has been reduced by at least 3 percentage points, which amounts to 25% of the initial mortality. The identified impact is …