-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

Explanations for the West's escape from premature mortality have focused on chronic malnutrition or income and on … public health or state capacity. We argue that by ignoring the multigenerational effects of variance in ancestors' harvests …

did not affect other health-seeking behavior of mothers. The results illustrate the potential spillover effects of …

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 …

Health care facilities considering mandating staff vaccination face a difficult tradeoff. While additional vaccination … on COVID transmission and mortality at each facility. We use a difference-in-differences framework to estimate the impact … vaccinations at mandate facilities, which directly led to less transmission of and lower patient mortality from COVID. We estimate …

. Mortality from all causes during the pandemic was elevated 26 percent for working-age adults (18-64), as compared to 18 percent … historic, yet largely unacknowledged, health emergency …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly … increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …

effect on health is incomplete. In this study, we provide a unique set of facts about racial disparities in mortality that … all theories of racism and health need to confront to be convincing. We measure racial disparities in mortality between …Racial differences in mortality are large, persistent and likely caused, at least in part, by racism. While the causal …