positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … through education, but find no evidence that parents reinforce differences in skill endowments. We argue that there is a bias …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase … in mortality rates which cannot be dismissed as a statistical artefact. Next, the paper discusses various theories …

longevity advantage for the whole century. Unlike most mortality databases of this period, genealogical data allows analysis of … spatial patterns and of the impacts of fertility on longevity. Our results suggest very limited evidence of spatial (state …) variation in these patterns. We do, however, find evidence that the associations between fertility and longevity partially …