the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people …

paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to the substantial heaping present in the data. The main objective … estimator and provide a simple procedure to test whether the policy had (uniformly) reduced mortality. While our empirical …

This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions … decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we find that milk inspections reduced mortality from waterborne and foodborne diseases by 8 …