We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on … could settle in the colony. In places where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they could not settle and they were more … supporting these hypotheses. Exploiting differences in mortality rates faced by soldiers, bishops and sailors in the colonies in …

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 …

excess mortality data. Contrasting countries' rankings using these two data sources reveal sharp and systematic differences …. While higher GDP per capita is associated with a worse mortality ranking when using official Covid-19 mortality, there is no … such sharp association when using excess mortality data. By the end of 2021, the quartile rankings of three-fifths of the …

The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality …

This paper develops the first globally comprehensive and empirically grounded estimates of mortality risk due to future … temperature increases caused by climate change. Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality … adaptation. We uncover a U-shaped relationship where extreme cold and hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for …

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for …

, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using … behind. Each component we introduce plays a significant role in accounting for these differences, with mortality being most …