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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality : reply to Cutler and Miller

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2019

Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the … determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of their data: (1 …) correcting infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration on infant mortality by two-thirds, from -43 log …

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Who pays for public employee health costs?

Clemens, Jeffrey; Cutler, David M. - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 65-76

We analyze the incidence of public-employee health benefits. Because these benefits are negotiated through the political process, relevant labor market institutions deviate significantly from the competitive, private-sector benchmark. Empirically, we find that roughly 15 percent of the cost of...

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Who Pays for Public Employee Health Costs?

Cutler, David M.; Clemens, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2005

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

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