-19 related deaths since - as of June 16, 2020 - they constitute 35 percent of the dead, so that they are dying at a rate … 1.3 times higher than their population share. Furthermore, by combining the spatial distribution of mortality with the … 1930s redlining maps for the Chicago area, we obtain a block group level panel dataset of weekly deaths over the period …

There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is …

novel dataset linking individual-level administrative records on employment, hospital discharges, and mortality for a 17 … that job loss increases hospitalization (+33%) and mortality risks (+23%) for male workers, while women are not affected …

-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the …, regions where the outbreak had just started were able to lower their daily fatality rate by 2.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … county-level COVID-19 deaths and cases. Despite popular media coverage to the contrary, we find that counties with more Toxic …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate …

analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate outcomes and exploited the heterogeneity of the … difference in geographic regression discontinuity design (DiD-GRDD) to compare mortality rates in 2020 of Lombardy … analysis shows that mortality rates in Lombardy during the first wave were higher by 1-2 percentage points among the population …

with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …