We study how mortality reductions and income growth interact, looking at their relationship prior to the Industrial … individual health expenditures even when medicine was not effective in postponing death. We then explain the rise of effective … medicine by a learning process function of expenditures in health. The rise in effective medicine can then be linked to the …

environment is associated with poor health into adulthood - a scarring effect. The second: famine survivors do not themselves … suffer any health impact - a selection effect. Anthropometric evidence from records pertaining to over 21,000 subjects born … selection is strongest where famine mortality is highest. Individuals born in heavily-affected areas experienced no measurable …

mortality risk among forced migrants compared to native West-Germans. The adverse displacement effect persists throughout the … earnings distribution except for the top quintile. Although forced migrants are generally worse off regarding mortality …

mortality risk among forced migrants compared to native West-Germans. The adverse displacement effect persists throughout the … earnings distribution except for the top quintile. Although forced migrants are generally worse off regarding mortality …

-15 Ebola outbreak in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to the two diseases and their lethality; the … spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality; the role of public action in containing the two diseases; and their …

and COVID-19 in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to Ebola and plague and their lethality; the … spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality; the role of public action in containing the two diseases; and their …