Mortality is a crucial indicator of wellbeing and recent mortality trends have been a subject of public debate in many … Western countries. This paper compares mortality inequality in Canada and the U.S. over the period 1990/91 through 2010/11. In … Canada, mortality inequality remained constant among the youngest, but increased for men over 24 and for women over 14. In …

cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant mortality and life expectancy. We analyze several alternative measures … health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …

The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in … had larger declines in the premature mortality rate, controlling for changes in the incidence rate.The estimates imply …

similar trends but a steeper gradient when using cohorts. For middle-aged men, we find a cessation of mortality improvements …

A theoretical model is developed and applied to the North American auto industry, motivated by the possibility of US-Mexico …. Using an applied GE model, we find that (A) the gains to Mexico are significant and the effects on the US and Canada are … North American multinationals determine markups, increased imports from Mexico do not result in a rationalization of US and …

After signing ten free trade agreements between 1993 and 2001, Mexico as a world leader in foreign trade policy … agreements (RTAs) arises from a consistency test, but also from the ability of a country to administer them. Mexico's multiple … model of equilibrium, along with a political economy approach of why Mexico seeks multiple RTAs as its foreign trade policy …

bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico …

on U.S. regulations and net trade flows among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, for 130 manufacturing industries from 1977 to …