This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

A random life expectancy and a positive relationship between the probability of dying and the degree of addiction are … incorporated into a rational addiction model. The Becker-Murphy equality between the addictive commodity's full price and marginal …. The rate of change of the consumption of the addictive commodity is lower than that obtained when the effect of addiction …

This study extends the Rational Addiction theory by introducing an endogenous discounting of future utilities. The … drinking or extreme addiction states that may drive to death. The stability of the steady state mostly depend on the habit …

wellbeing (SWB) is affected by mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, including mortality from HIV/AIDS. The Gallup data provide … direct evidence on Africans’ own emotional and evaluative responses to high levels of infection and of mortality. By … comparing the effect of mortality on SWB with the effect of income on SWB, we can attach monetary values to mortality to …

wellbeing (SWB) is affected by mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, including mortality from HIV/AIDS. The Gallup data provide … direct evidence on Africans’ own emotional and evaluative responses to high levels of infection and of mortality. By … comparing the effect of mortality on SWB with the effect of income on SWB, we can attach monetary values to mortality to …