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We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico … in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates …
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"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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The objective of this paper is to find the quantitative importance of some predictors of mortality among the population … including a history of heart attack or cancer, and subjective probabilities of survival. The estimation is based on mortality …-economic indicators and mortality declines with age 13 health indicators are strong predictors of mortality and that the subjective …
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cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …
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We argue that the Covid epidemic disproportionately affected the economic well-being and health of poor people. To disentangle the forces that generated this outcome, we construct a model that is consistent with the heterogeneous impact of the Covid recession on low- and high-income people....
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We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of movers in the Medicare …
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misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …
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There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita incomes by more in poor countries than in rich. This supposition is reasonable but false. Rich countries have experienced more deaths per head than have poor countries; their...
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We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health …
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Rich people, women, and healthy people live longer. We document that this heterogeneity in life expectancy is large, and we use an estimated structural model to assess its effect on the elderly's saving. We find that the differences in life expectancy related to observable factors such as...
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