This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …

Existing studies find little connection between living standards and mortality in England, but go back only to the … sixteenth century. Using new data on inheritances, we extend estimates of mortality back to the mid-thirteenth century and find … the link between harvest failure and mass mortality. …

, quality of life and mortality. Understanding inequality in relation to these behaviours among older people is important in the …

with it. In addition, inequality of opportunity is strongly correlated with child and maternal mortality and other measures …