daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …

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

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

mortality data. By December 2021, the quartile rankings of three-fifths of the countries differ when ranked by excess vs …. official mortality. Countries that are ‘doing substantially better’ in the excess mortality are characterized by higher urban …

-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends and racial gaps in life … greatest impact on the racial life expectancy gap. The causes that contributed the most to Black mortality reductions included … by 2036. European life expectancy also stalled after 2014. Still, the comparison with Europe suggests that mortality …

This article estimates the mortality cost of smoking based on the first labor market estimates of the value of … statistical life by smoking status. Using these values in conjunction with the increase in the mortality risk over the life cycle … life cycle, produces an estimate of the private mortality cost of smoking of $222 per pack for men and $94 per pack for …

wellbeing (SWB) is affected by mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, including mortality from HIV/AIDS. The Gallup data provide … direct evidence on Africans' own emotional and evaluative responses to high levels of infection and of mortality. By … comparing the effect of mortality on SWB with the effect of income on SWB, we can attach monetary values to mortality to …