ignoring the household as unit of decision-making has relevant empirical consequences. In estimation, the individual search …

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 …

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 … of this paper is to provide a set of sufficient conditions for identification and consistent estimation of the baseline …

our finding that African Americans experienced larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of …

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school … at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0 …

The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during … first year of life appears to significantly increase all-cause mortality risks and cancer mortality risks of older males and … females. It also significantly increases mortality risks due to cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases of …