inequality across and within countries. The paper explores the causes of such trends on the basis of five main mortality models … world if the determinants of health had continued developing over these decades as they did over 1960-80. The results … regard, the paper raises doubts about the way globalization has taken place and the way public policy oriented it. …

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class … inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of … the population. Lower social classes suffer disproportionally from being born in recessions. This exacerbates mortality …

We apply the theory of inequality in opportunity to measure inequity in mortality. Ourempirical work is based on a rich … dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that … distinguishing between differentchannels via which mortality is affected is necessary to test the sensitivity of the results …

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 …