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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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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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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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mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …
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Cigarette smoking leads to large healthcare and morbidity costs, and mortality losses, and smoking cessation plays a …
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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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. 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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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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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 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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