. We estimate that a one standard deviation increase in judicial claims increases the all-cause mortality rate by between 0 ….10 and 0.23 standard deviations. Increases in mortality are pervasive across causes, with the largest increase in deaths from …

spending in developing countries is. Existing research presents little evidence of an impact on childhood mortality. Using … restricting the sample to rural households, a significant effect of health expenditure on infant mortality emerges, the long run …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer … countries are scarce, and both income risk and mortality risk are greater in poor countries. This paper uses individual data on …