Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline … today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing an abrupt, large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 … that increased the share of Mexico's population receiving chlorinated water from 55% to 85% within six months. We find that …

Historically, improvements municipal drinking water quality contributed significantly to mortality decline in wealthy … puzzle by analyzing a large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 that dramatically increased access … to chlorinated water. On average, we find that the program led to a 37 to 48% decline in diarrheal mortality among …

Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in … late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …

Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the … despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women … continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise …

uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …

comparing actual age-sex-specific mortality rates with "expected" ones. Contrary to the existing literature on missing women …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than … reference standard for sex-specific mortality from rich countries that is inappropriately applied to settings in developing …

systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …

What effect does rising income inequality have on mortality rates in developed countries? In particular, does the rise … the effect of rising income inequality on mortality rates of men and women in a subset of OECD countries over six decades … from 1950-2008. The authors used adult mortality as the outcome measure and the inverted Pareto-Lorenz coefficient as the …