Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. We investigate … the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, we identify a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure, both …

We follow Medicare cohorts to estimate Hurricane Katrina's long-run mortality effects on victims initially living in … to lower-mortality regions explains most of this survival increase. Those migrating to low- versus high-mortality regions … look similar at baseline, but their subsequent mortality is 0.83–1.01 percentage points lower per percentage …

that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest … the campaign's end explains a large share of the mortality crisis - implying that Russia's transition to capitalism and …

before. We use this discontinuity in eligibility to measure the impact of public health insurance on mortality by following … mortality by the underlying causes of death, distinguishing between deaths due to internal and external causes. We also examine … eligibility during childhood on the later life mortality of black children at ages 15-18. The estimates indicate a 13-20 percent …

mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

-related mortality. Our findings show that many commonly-used methods have very low statistical power to detect a significant policy … effect (< 10%) when the policy effect size is small yet impactful (e.g., 5% reduction in opioid mortality). Many methods …

-related mortality. Our findings show that many commonly-used methods have very low statistical power to detect a significant policy … effect (< 10%) when the policy effect size is small yet impactful (e.g., 5% reduction in opioid mortality). Many methods …

systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …