Mortality is a crucial indicator of wellbeing and recent mortality trends have been a subject of public debate in many … Western countries. This paper compares mortality inequality in Canada and the U.S. over the period 1990/91 through 2010/11. In … Canada, mortality inequality remained constant among the youngest, but increased for men over 24 and for women over 14. In …

expectancy and infant mortality in Italy are better and have improved more over time. The implication is that the Italian health …

Mortality is a crucial dimension of wellbeing and inequality in a population, and mortality trends have been at the … core of public debates in many Western countries. In this paper, we provide the first analysis of mortality inequality in … Canada and compare its development to trends in the U.S. We find strong reductions in mortality rates across both genders and …

Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt … relationship between the state of the economy and mortality is found to change from procyclical to countercyclical in all six … variation in the mortality index. -- Demography ; Lee-Carter ; business cycle ; time series model …

mortality risk reductions. We find similar Value of Statistical Life estimates across the two studies, ranging from USD 930 …