mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by …

longevity advantage for the whole century. Unlike most mortality databases of this period, genealogical data allows analysis of … spatial patterns and of the impacts of fertility on longevity. Our results suggest very limited evidence of spatial (state …) variation in these patterns. We do, however, find evidence that the associations between fertility and longevity partially …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth …. Statistically, long-term effects of famine on mortality become only visible when changes in the frailty distribution of cohorts are …

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase … in mortality rates which cannot be dismissed as a statistical artefact. Next, the paper discusses various theories …

period (1993-2017). Our estimates are based on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study and show that the effect of education on … longevity is well explained by observed mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that for women, the positive effect of education on … longevity has been historically masked by the negative effect of education on marriage. An adjustment for the relationship …

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … through education, but find no evidence that parents reinforce differences in skill endowments. We argue that there is a bias …

. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 … allows us to estimate the causal effect of conditions at a certain age on adult height. Moreover, we compare siblings born …

systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …