studies the impact of air pollution on pandemic mortality. The analysis combines a panel dataset on infant and all …-age mortality with a novel measure of air pollution based on the burning of coal in a large sample of U.S. cities. We estimate that … air pollution contributed significantly to pandemic mortality. Cities that used more coal experienced tens of thousands of …

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 …

codes fixed-effects regression models on the following AMI outcomes: time-specific mortality rates, age, and probability of … PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among patients in communities … time, we find a substantial increase in long-term mortality rates, a shift to younger ages (suggesting that the older ones …

mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find frailer survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely …. Among survivors to 1900, those younger than 30 at imprisonment faced higher older age mortality and morbidity and worse …

, 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 …

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and … in individuals' own behavior contribute very little to pro-cyclical mortality. Looking across broad age and gender groups …, we find that own-group employment rates are not systematically related to own-group mortality. In addition, we find that …