causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … takes account of selectivity in partners' mortality and health evolution. We find strong instantaneous effects of … bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …

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 …

. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …

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

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 …

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 …

This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and … mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health …