The great surge in munitions production in World War II, which reached its peak in 1943, was produced by a building … boom launched in 1941 and 1942. Resources were drawn rapidly to war production centers by financial incentives and other … end of the war, but they cannot account for the speed and magnitude of the initial response. …

Are mortality and life expectancy differences by socioeconomic groups increasing in the United States? Using a unique … by lifetime earnings for the 1983 to 2003 period. The results indicate a consistent increase in mortality differentials … point to almost five decades of increasing differential mortality in the United States. …

, we find that the only significant effect can be found for a lag of 3 decades, i.e., deaths in the war negatively impact …

find that the only significant effect can be found for a lag of 3 decades - i.e., deaths in the war negatively impact the …

the power to enforce normative behavior, that the gender gap in survival rates has declined, that women have a larger …

We examine the role of declining mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We … of death. In an environment in which mortality is high, an individual who saved up for retirement would face a high risk …. As mortality falls, however, it becomes optimal to plan, and save for, retirement. We simulate our model using actual …

mortality. Our epidemiological analysis uses geographical information (e.g., municipalities) and negative binomial regression to … assess whether both ambient PM2.5 concentration and excess mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Our analysis … suggests a positive association of ambient PM2.5 concentration on excess mortality in Northern Italy related to the COVID-19 …

The most popular approach to modelling and forecasting mortality rates is the model of Lee and Carter (Modeling and … Forecasting U. S. Mortality, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87, 659–671, 1992). The popularity of the model …