similar trends but a steeper gradient when using cohorts. For middle-aged men, we find a cessation of mortality improvements …

cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant mortality and life expectancy. We analyze several alternative measures … health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …

Mortality is a crucial dimension of wellbeing and inequality in a population, and mortality trends have been at the … core of public debates in many Western countries. In this paper, we provide the first analysis of mortality inequality in … Canada and compare its development to trends in the U.S. We find strong reductions in mortality rates across both genders and …

The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in … had larger declines in the premature mortality rate, controlling for changes in the incidence rate …

bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico …

on U.S. regulations and net trade flows among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, for 130 manufacturing industries from 1977 to …

After signing ten free trade agreements between 1993 and 2001, Mexico as a world leader in foreign trade policy … agreements (RTAs) arises from a consistency test, but also from the ability of a country to administer them. Mexico's multiple … model of equilibrium, along with a political economy approach of why Mexico seeks multiple RTAs as its foreign trade policy …

only to describe the contracting practices of US and Canadian franchisors in Mexico but, most importantly, to compare them … agreements in Mexico compared to their home market. Our empirical results confirm hypotheses derived from the theories …, particularly with respect to the decision to operate in Mexico. But we also find some surprises - for example, the vast majority of …