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 …

We find that veterans of the Union Army who faced greater wartime stress (as measured by higher battlefield mortality … rates) experienced higher mortality rates at older ages, but that men who were from more cohesive companies were … statistically significantly less likely to be affected by wartime stress. Our results hold for overall mortality, mortality from …

When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an …

are transferred to other care units in the hospital. We estimate a nearly 1 percentage point drop in 7-day mortality for …. The mortality gap persists for at least two years following the initial hospital admission …

discussion of dependency ratios. Two alternative measures of age are explored: mortality risk and remaining life expectancy. With …. However, the fraction of the population that is above a mortality rate that corresponds to 65+ today will grow by only 20 … percent. Needless to say, the aging of the society is a lot less dramatic with the alternative mortality-based age measures …

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …