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

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 …

-capita expenditures and ignore the extent of within-household inequality. Recent advances in the estimation of collective models suggest …

(ADL) and in term of mortality. Our results suggest that besides aging, there are other important factors contributing to … bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … of risk behaviors are consistent with theory and common wisdom …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric … historical trends in infant mortality over the 20th century …