to use their ample material resources to prevent, manage and cure the ill-health that caused so many premature deaths …. Along with the poor, they therefore were left at a grave health disadvantage vis-à-vis adult members of the wealthy urban …

We study how mortality reductions and income growth interact, looking at their relationship prior to the Industrial … individual health expenditures even when medicine was not effective in postponing death. We then explain the rise of effective … medicine by a learning process function of expenditures in health. The rise in effective medicine can then be linked to the …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

Johansson (2010) in support of her thesis regarding “Europe’s first knowledge‐driven mortality transition,” namely the … significance of a particular pattern of inter‐cohort changes in the royals’ mortality experience – namely, one whose timing and age …‐cohort comparisons of life table mortality schedules are obtained by using the 5‐year average survival rates distributions for successive …

We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of … suggest that changing conditions at both household and locality levels contributed to the increase in height and health in the …

We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of … suggest that changing conditions at both household and locality levels contributed to the increase in height and health in the …

There has been a longstanding debate about the link between political representation and health. In this article, I … representation generated substantive health benefits for the general population. Using the exemplary case of Switzerland, I first … redistribution or total spending. Based on comprehensive archival mortality statistics since 1890, I then demonstrate that the …