mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …-experimental literature on lead and fertility, infant mortality, and infant birth outcomes, highlighting key results, methods, and …Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead …

uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …

due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … within-state changes in mortality in non-winter months as an additional control group. Our estimates suggest that reductions … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …

impact of lead exposure on a critical human function with societal implications - fertility. To provide causal estimates of … the effect of lead on fertility, we use two sets of instruments: i) the interaction of the timing of implementation of … System Plan for the cross sectional data. We find that reductions in airborne lead between 1978 and 1988 increased fertility …