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opioid mortality--each prevented opioid death was replaced with a heroin death …
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"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the quality of delivery care through...
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utilize this natural experiment to estimate the effect of coal plant exposure on mortality and house values. Using a …
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daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …
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detailed and accurate picture of mortality patterns among people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. Our analyses center on … comparison groups, are linked to Social Security Administration data on all-cause mortality from 2010-2022 to estimate the ….5 times the mortality risk of those who are housed, accounting for differences in demographic characteristics and geography …
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daily sulfur dioxide levels, we first characterize the short-run mortality effects of acute exposure during the time period … 1972-1988. Exposure causes two distinct mortality patterns: a short-run mortality displacement effect, and a persistent …
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outpatient cost-sharing measurably increases mortality, raising 8-year mortality by 4 deaths per 10,000 individuals. To the best … of our knowledge, this study is the first to show a relationship between cost-sharing and adult mortality risk in a low …
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In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...
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Extensive research has documented that elevated air pollution increases mortality and morbidity, with estimates …
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