and social circumstances of less educated, have led to increased mortality from drugs, suicide, and chronic liver disease … the ability of the postulated relationships to explain the sharply differing mortality trajectories of non-Hispanic whites …, compared with other groups, and the timing of the observed mortality changes. Along the way, I raise doubts about the …

was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022. Data accompanying this paper can be found at <a href="http://www.nber.org/gould">www.nber.org/gould</a> …

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither the UN's Human Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World … Happiness Report from the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last …

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on … could settle in the colony. In places where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they could not settle and they were more … supporting these hypotheses. Exploiting differences in mortality rates faced by soldiers, bishops and sailors in the colonies in …

excess mortality data. Contrasting countries' rankings using these two data sources reveal sharp and systematic differences …. While higher GDP per capita is associated with a worse mortality ranking when using official Covid-19 mortality, there is no … such sharp association when using excess mortality data. By the end of 2021, the quartile rankings of three-fifths of the …

The demographic transition --the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality …

This paper develops the first globally comprehensive and empirically grounded estimates of mortality risk due to future … temperature increases caused by climate change. Using 40 countries' subnational data, we estimate age-specific mortality … adaptation. We uncover a U-shaped relationship where extreme cold and hot temperatures increase mortality rates, especially for …