This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

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 …

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in … of children from poorer families. …

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 …

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 …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher … increased mortality among male early retirees. …