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 …

, we use rich contextual data on morbidity and mortality, as well as on the socioeconomic status of parents, for the period … influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their …

We present results on the mortality statistics of the COVID-19 epidemic in a number of countries. Our data analysis … inhabitants, a pattern emerges in which the Western countries exhibit the largest mortality rate. Furthermore, comparing the … a means of tracking the dynamics of outbreaks in the ``first wave'' and estimating the associated ultimate mortality …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …

-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the …

This paper provides new evidence of the impacts of early life exposure to the 1918 pandemic on old-age mortality by … analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study (n ~ 220,000). The specifications used year and quarter of birth … indicators to assess the effects of timing of pandemic exposure and used Cox proportional hazard models for all-cause mortality …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …