faster and mortality risk rises. I calibrate the model to a reference American with bmi 28. Due to weight loss addiction, the …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …

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 …