1930s redlining maps for the Chicago area, we obtain a block group level panel dataset of weekly deaths over the period …-graded neighborhoods display a sharper increase in mortality, driven by blacks, while no pre-treatment differences are detected. Thus, we … rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon and the reasons why blacks may be particularly vulnerable to the disease …

underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County … an event study approach we establish that Blacks individuals are affected earlier and more harshly and that the effect is … driven by Black women. Rather than comorbidity or aging, the Black female bias is associated with poverty and channeled by …

exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on respiratory mortality. By employing an … mortality by 0.062-0.066 standard deviations. The findings indicate that long-term ozone exposure increases mortality from both … that the respiratory mortality rate responds to long-term ozone exposure nonlinearly, and that there is a critical …

As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand … disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases across six diverse cities - Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, San Diego, and St … related to possible mechanisms. For two cities - Chicago and New York - we also examine COVID-19 fatalities, finding that …

- women's mortality rate increased after their husbands' deaths. … influx of the soldiers into the marriage market suddenly tipped the balance in favor of women. We have found that men subject … to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect …

In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all … mixed-gender races than in all-women races, whereas men racer's time is faster in mixed-gender races than men-only races. In …-dominated circumstances affect women's racing performance. We control for individual fixed-effects plus a host of other factors affecting …

. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather … significant positive effects of PM10 concentration after the onset of the illness on COVID-19 deaths specifically for elderly … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. -- Obesity ; longitudinal data ; mortality ; smoking …

with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the … county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … unemployment rate increases their mortality hazard by 6%. There is little to no such relationship for people with weaker labor …