studies in the economics and public health literatures measuring the mortality effects of air pollution. …Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but … overall, cause-specific, and age-specific mortality rates with state-level measures of ambient concentrations of three types …

health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … to explain any of the child mortality variation between Ghana and its neighbors. Geography and health policy variables … each explain about 40% of the mortality gap between Ghana and Burkina Faso. Health policy differences alone are able to …

the first period to the next depends upon health capital that can be augmented through public investment. High mortality …Conventional wisdom attributes the severity of mortality in poorer countries to widespread poverty and inadequate … mortality. Endogenous mortality risk is introduced in a two-period overlapping generations model: probability of survival from …

Most countries of the world are reducing infant and child mortality too slowly to meet the Millennium Development Goal … being one example. This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh, where the Young … mortality are estimated using a Cox proportional hazards model. Infant mortality is found to depend on biological factors …

stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …

We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health …. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …

We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health …. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …