We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the … information about preferences and subjective mortality expectations from the Health and Retirement Study merged with detailed … choices vary with subjective mortality rates in a way that is consistent with the life cycle model; 2) different answers to …

event history analysis, childhood mortality is shown to remain very high in the Nairobi informal settlements, especially … HIV AIDS pandemic is the risk factor associated to the mortality among children who have lost their mother. Our study also …

misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …