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 …

an individual accounts retirement program. I first estimate mortality differentials by gender, race, ethnicity and level … of education using the National Longitudinal Mortality Study and document substantial differences. I then use these …

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 …

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 …

groups and causes in the ratio of actual-to-baseline deaths, and in the contribution of COVID-19 to excess mortality. Prior … research has frequently underestimated baseline deaths and so has overstated excess mortality and the percentage of it …

causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 ….5 concentration driven by distant dust emission causes a 22% increase in infant mortality across our African sample (95% CI: 10 …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …