cheap fentanyl. Drug mortality dipped in the months between the $600 and $300 bonuses, especially for age groups …

of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these …

when available through retail dispensaries, is associated with higher opioid mortality. The results for recreational …

We analyze whether receiving care from higher-priced hospitals leads to lower mortality. We overcome selection issues … higher prices raises spending by 52% and lowers mortality by 1 percentage point (35%). However, the relationship between … higher prices and lower mortality is only present at hospitals in less concentrated markets. Receiving care from an expensive …

Decades of evidence reveal a complicated relationship between mammograms and mortality. Mammograms may detect deadly … cause symptoms. I provide a brief history of the evidence on mammograms and mortality, focusing on evidence from clinical … trials, and I discuss how this evidence informs mammography guidelines. I then explore the evolution of all-cause mortality …

recently discharged patients and in risk-adjusted 30-day patient mortality rates. Overall, the results indicate that access to …

place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places …

It is now established that mortality and excess mortality from COVID-19 differed across racial and ethnic groups in … 2020. Less is known about educational differences in mortality during the pandemic. We examine mortality rates by BA status … within sex, age, and race/ethnic groups comparing 2020 with 2019. Mortality rates have increasingly differed by BA status in …

This paper investigates the local impact of biomedical research on mortality in the USA. Causally estimating the … enables research to be related to mortality at the geographic, disease and time level. We then estimate the marginal impact of … biomedical research on mortality using hospital market (HRR) level shocks to research activity by disease. Our identification …

This paper explores the long-run health benefits of education for longevity. Using mortality data from the Social …