impact of federal assimilation policies on childhood mortality. We use children ever born and children surviving data … included in the censuses to estimate childhood mortality and [responses to] several questions unique to the Indian enumeration … allotment] to construct multivariate models of child mortality. The results suggest that mortality among American Indians in the …

the government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australia has much better data on drug utilization than most other …

This study analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality due to heart disease, cancer, and asthma …. Reduced form regressions of mortality rates on tax data for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, and … unobserved persistence, indicate that tax increases lead to statistically significant decreases in mortality. A 10% increase in …

private hospitals in Western Australia (WA) during the period 2000-2007. We can measure survival for a period as long as 8 …