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Milanović, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, … - 2022

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger : Famines, Price Elasticities, Entitlements, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates

Fogel, Robert William - 2022

The six principal findings of this paper are as follows: (1) crisis mortality accounted for less than 5 percent of … total mortality in England prior to 1800 and the elimination of crisis mortality accounted for just 15 percent of the … decline in total mortality between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (2) The use of variations in wheat prices to …

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Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2022

This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine was arduous overall and particularily intense during...

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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …

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Smoking, Health Capital, and Longevity : Evaluation of Personalized Cessation Treatments in a Lifecycle Model with Heterogeneous Agents

Chen, Li-Shiun - 2017

Cigarette smoking leads to large healthcare and morbidity costs, and mortality losses, and smoking cessation plays a …

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Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in the United States : What Can We Learn from Vital Statistics About Inequality?

Haines, Michael R. - 2017

This paper looks at the fertility and mortality experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States from the … for mortality. The black population has experienced absolute convergence but relative deterioration in mortality (neonatal … and infant mortality, maternal mortality, expectation of life at birth, and age-adjusted death rates), in contrast to the …

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Even the Representative Agent Must Die : Using Demographics to Inform Long-Term Social Discount Rates

Fenichel, Eli P. - 2017

. We show how age-specific mortality rates and life expectancies imply a natural UDR for individuals at each age in a …

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The Methuselah Effect : The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old Age Mortality Estimates

Black, Dan A. - 2017

We examine inferences about old age mortality that arise when researchers use survey data matched to death records. We … show that even small rates of failure to match respondents can lead to substantial bias in the measurement of mortality …) the deceleration in mortality rates at old ages, (2) the black-white mortality crossover, and (3) the relatively low rate …

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Long-Run Pollution Exposure and Adult Mortality : Evidence from the Acid Rain Program

Barreca, Alan I. - 2017

in endogenous pollution exposure. We estimate the effects of long-run pollution exposure on mortality among adults by … many potential confounding effects. We use a difference-indifferences design, comparing changes in mortality over time in … counties “near” regulated plants to changes in mortality in similar counties “far” from the plants. We find relative mortality …

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Mortality Inequality in Canada and the U.S : Divergent or Convergent Trends?

Baker, Michael - 2017

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 …

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