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fetal deaths is impossible to obtain. We present the gender ratio of live births as an under-exploited metric of fetal … the use of observed differences in neonatal and one-year mortality rates across genders in response to pollution exposure …
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measure of mortality more sensitive to disparities and more reliably calculated for small populations, to describe the … environmental variables, selected for previously suspected impact on mortality; R2 ranges from 0.86 for white males to 0.72 for …
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show that variance in length of life is inversely related to the Gompertz slope of log mortality through age, and we reveal … and forecasting mortality. In particular, we examine how the assumption of proportional hazards fails to account …
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Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances … to contend. We draw on a wide swath of mortality data, including probability of survival to age 70 by county in the … United States, the Human Mortality Database data for 18 high-income countries since 1900, and mortality data within and …
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We develop a flexible test for changes in the SES-mortality gradient over time that directly accounts for changes in … evidence for a change in the education-mortality gradient is not as strong and universal as previous research has suggested …
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female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the …
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with these conditions. While some of the gender difference in mortality can be explained by differences in the distribution … for mortality. Although the effects of many chronic conditions on the probability of death are the same for women and men … mortality. Is smoking the smoking gun? Conditions for which we find excess male hospitalizations and mortality are generally …
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We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the … Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change …
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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 …
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In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the estimation of...
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