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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 …
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This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates, increasing tobacco taxes could save more than GEL 3.6 billion and 53 thousand lives over a...
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, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …
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This paper examines cross-country evidence of how the Covid-19 pandemic spread and the mortality rates associated with … pollution) increase the spread of the pandemic and/or the mortality rate. On average, the government policy delay in mobility … pandemic mortality. Individualistic culture and general trust amplify the positive links between pandemic mortality and the …
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reduction policy in parts of South Africa's second-largest city, Cape Town, to investigate the mortality effects of load … policy statistically significantly reduces mortality in Cape Town relative to other parts of South Africa experiencing …
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survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
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macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular …
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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 …
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that the general adult male mortality crisis in the region had a ?feedback? effect on suicide rates, with the loss of a …
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with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …
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