This paper studies how potential work migrants infer mortality rates from incidents of migrant deaths. In the context … implies large changes in mortality rates perceived by potential migrants. Models of learning fallacies better explain the …

Persian Gulf countries. The experiment provides them with information on wages and mortality incidences in their choice … overestimate their mortality rate abroad, and that information on mortality incidences lowers this expectation. Potential migrants … experiment, the study estimates migration elasticities of 0.7 in expected earnings and 0.5 in expected mortality. The experiment …

This study contributes to the literature on legal institutions and determinants of adult mortality. The paper explores … the relationship between the presence of domestic violence legislation and women-to-men adult mortality rates. Using panel … lower women-to-men adult mortality rates. According to conservative estimations, domestic violence legislation would have …

insignificant impacts on mortality. The exogenous sources of job losses in a U.S. county is the tradable job losses driven by … groups, and for almost all categories of mortality. Three important exceptions are Alzheimer's, poisoning, and homicide …

combines data on cumulative health care worker deaths from Ebola, the stock of health care workers and mortality rates pre …, infant, and under-five mortality. The paper estimates how the loss of health care workers to Ebola will likely affect non …-Ebola mortality even after the disease is eliminated. It then estimates the size of the resource gap that needs to be filled to avoid …

mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large … substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although …

differences in adult mortality, calculating mortality based on the sibling mortality reports collected from female respondents … aged 15-49. The analysis yields four main findings. First, adult mortality is different from child mortality: while under-5 … mortality shows a definite improving trend over time, adult mortality does not, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The second …