more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … mortality and cause of death statistics based on detailed regional data. The results indicate that there was indeed an increase … in mortality rates which cannot be dismissed as a statistical artefact. Next, the paper discusses various theories …

mortality of the Arctic region. In Russia, in recent years, mortality rates are currently falling. The high mortality rate is … observed in the Arctic zone. The reason for this situation is the high level of mortality from external causes, which is one … Arctic zone. Priority directions to improve the demographic situation in the Arctic should be to reduce mortality and improve …

a multi-population mortality model which includes a cause-specific environment using Archimedean copulae to model … dependence between various groups of causes of death. For this, Dutch data on cause-of-death mortality and cause …-specific mortality data from 14 comparable European countries were used. We find that the inclusion of a common factor to a cause …