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This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in … alcohol has, at most, a minor impact on drunk driving and mortality at age 16 and 18 years. This study thus provides fresh …
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In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the states that adopted the higher speed limit must have valued the travel hours...
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In light of recent discussions about shifting employees from traditional workplaces to virtual employment, we are motivated by the question of whether this phenomenon will end up saving lives even in the absence of an infectious disease outbreak. Motor vehicle incidents are the leading cause of...
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This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
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Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
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The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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isolation index and mortality, which is much stronger in Eastern countries. While all of our pooled countries estimates ranged … between a 20 to 30% increase in the mortality hazard for the socially isolated, that number jumps to 45% for the Eastern … observe. Up to 13 percent of the effect of baseline social isolation on mortality can be imputed to the combined one …
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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 …
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by 2036. European life expectancy also stalled after 2014. Still, the comparison with Europe suggests that mortality …-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends and racial gaps in life … in the U.S. than in Europe. In 1990 White Americans and Europeans in rich areas had similar overall life expectancy …
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