of antitoxin led to a substantial decline in diphtheria mortality rates and increased life expectancy at birth. Exposure …

Exploiting pre-intervention variation in flu/pneumonia, tuberculosis and maternal mortality, together with time … shock to flu/pneumonia mortality has been conductive for development, the large reduction in the incidence of tuberculosis … decline in maternal mortality has a fragile, but positive relationship with income per capita. Because these specific health …

health shock that affected predominantly old-age mortality; i.e., the fourth stage of the epidemiological transition. Using a … differences-in-differences estimation strategy, we find that U.S. states with higher levels of cardiovascular-disease mortality …