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 …

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 …

place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places …

model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation … value of the discounted sum of total expenditures is lower for smokers, mainly because of excess mortality. We find no …

economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

larger subsequent survival gains and mortality reductions, controlling for changing incidence. I use the MEDLINE … estimated to have caused a 38% decline in the premature (before age 80) cancer mortality rate 12-24 years later …