of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these …

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 …

access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black infants (16%) than for … White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show that the effect of …

much more attractive thanks to three factors: a more generous delayed retirement credit, improvements in mortality, and …

This paper estimates the value of a statistical life (VSL), or the willingness to trade-off wealth and mortality risk …, among 430,000 U.S. Army soldiers choosing whether to reenlist between 2002 and 2010. Using a discrete choice random utility … approach and significant variation in retention bonuses and mortality risk, we recover average VSL estimates that range between …

maintenance of preventive care - and ultimately lower patient mortality. Pooling across these diseases, we estimate that a one …-standard deviation increase in the share of providers who are Black leads to a 15% relative decline in Black mortality among those with … these manageable illnesses. Our results further suggest that between 55 and 69% of this mortality impact arises through …

mortality are small: we can rule out reductions greater than 0.011 percentage points (0.14%) over five years …