geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …

health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … shorter gestation periods. Mortality effects are concentrated on intestinal infections and malnutrition, and are greatly … during the dry season, and for mortality in the first 6 months of life. The results seem to be driven by water scarcity per …

, selective mortality can imply a bias away from zero. In the case of the 1918 flu pandemic, a suppressed immune system may have …

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 …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality. …