Millions of women continue to die during and soon after childbirth, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid … this are available. We posit that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the timing of … mortality. Investigating mechanisms, we find that gender quotas lead to increases in percentage points of 5-8 in skilled birth …

This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality …

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 …

years of life for both men and women for cohorts born 1906-1915. This association is close to linear but exhibits strong … association is stronger in places with greater incomes, higher quality of school, and larger investments in public health. Women …

female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the …

life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men … mortality and fertility are not the reasons. Rather, we argue that the sharp reduction in infectious disease in the early … the ages of 5 and 25. Increased longevity of women, therefore, occurred as the burden of infectious disease fell for all …

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 …

Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances … to contend. We draw on a wide swath of mortality data, including probability of survival to age 70 by county in the … United States, the Human Mortality Database data for 18 high-income countries since 1900, and mortality data within and …

, which involved mass distribution of insecticide treated mosquito nets, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant women … Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While we …

those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a …