adults' willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the … gain from recent reductions in mortality in the U.S. easily doubles …

determinants for efficiency in credence goods markets. While theory predicts that either liability or verifiability yields … efficiency, we find that liability has a crucial, but verifiability only a minor effect. Allowing sellers to build up reputation … higher efficiency as long as liability is violated …

percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …

uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …

technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … adaptations that may be useful in the coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with a … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …

1.3 times higher than their population share. Furthermore, by combining the spatial distribution of mortality with the …-graded neighborhoods display a sharper increase in mortality, driven by blacks, while no pre-treatment differences are detected. Thus, we …