frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …

We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to … 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 … to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for those without; from 2019 to 2021, mortality rose for both groups …

's development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … capacity by more than cities experiencing less influenza mortality: cities in the top half of the mortality distribution …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we find that milk inspections reduced mortality from waterborne and foodborne diseases by 8 …

about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate … how state by year variation in alcohol control arising from the repeal of federal prohibition affects mortality for … cohorts born in the 1930s. We find that individuals born in wet states experienced higher later-life mortality than …

spike in mortality and its equally rapid decline three months later. We conclude that the fear and uncertainty in the early …

to infectious disease saw larger declines in their bacterial mortality rates following the introduction of sulfa drugs in …