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

-spending areas have significantly lower mortality rates compared to similar visitors in lower-spending areas. The results are robust …

.35) percentage point increase in 90-day and 1-year mortality, respectively, compared with those not experiencing changes in distance …. Our results also suggest that the predominant mechanism behind the mortality increase appeared to be time delay as opposed …

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 …

. However, analyses of geographic disparities in mortality outcomes focus almost exclusively on contemporaneously measured … patterns, and effects of destinations. We use the newly available Mortality Disparities in American Communities (MDAC) dataset … interstate migration mitigates baseline geographical inequality in mortality outcomes. Finally, we assess how state …

to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …

, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a … significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution …, before or after the surgery, is primarily explanatory of the excess mortality. Second, a small but high-risk group - elderly …