positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age … men with negative control beliefs are by a factor of 2.7 more likely to die after a health shock. The heterogeneous labour …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence suggesting long-run effects of early nutritional stresses on mortality …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between … mortality rates, during the first wave of the pandemic (between March and May 2020), but not during the second wave (between …

people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …

As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand …

COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March 31st, 2015-2020) for Lombardy, one of …

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 … of a diminished resilience of the black population to the shock represented by the COVID-19 outbreak. A heterogeneity …