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 …

of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these …

of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in … excess mortality is statistically significant in the immediate weeks following SIP implementation for the international … of the policy. At the U.S. state-level, excess mortality increases in the immediate weeks following SIP introduction and …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we find that milk inspections reduced mortality from waterborne and foodborne diseases by 8 …

A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We contribute by emphasizing two challenges in … using the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s quasi-experimental variation to study mortality. The first is non …-parallel pretreatment trends. Rising mortality in Medicaid non-expansion relative to expansion states prior to Medicaid expansion makes it …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …