disorder with large impacts on mortality. We compare investment levels for individuals who have ex ante identical risks of HD …

wellbeing (SWB) is affected by mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, including mortality from HIV/AIDS. The Gallup data provide … report the mortality of an immediate family member in the last twelve months, with malaria typically more important than AIDS … direct evidence on Africans' own emotional and evaluative responses to high levels of infection and of mortality. By …

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing … age and that it is the relatively high mortality rates of these young unmarried women (compared to their married …

causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 ….5 concentration driven by distant dust emission causes a 22% increase in infant mortality across our African sample (95% CI: 10 …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …

mortality risk in Sri Lanka between 1946 and 1953, which creates a sharp increase in life expectancy for school-age girls … geographic variation, we find that the 70% reduction in maternal mortality risk over the sample period increased female life …

Investment in water purification technologies led to large mortality declines by helping eradicate typhoid fever and …

mortality. Even for implausibly large responses of education to survival differences, almost all of today's low …

schooling. We employ this instrument to estimate the causal effects of mother's and father's schooling on their child's college … the college attended. The schooling of each parent does cause their child to experience better educational outcomes. A one …-year increase in the schooling of either parent raises the probability that the child attends one of the top six colleges in Taiwan …