Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality, but the cost-sharing environment for … insurers fully cover cancer screening services as an instrumental variable to estimate the effect of cost sharing on …

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted primary and secondary prevention efforts as well as routine cancer care including … diagnosis and treatment. The number of cancer-related procedures declined across countries. Many of the OECD countries also … faced challenges in maintaining and further improving cancer care quality and outcomes during the pandemic. This paper …

energy consumption, which caused an increase in mortality during very cold temperatures. We estimate that the increase in … mortality from higher electricity prices outnumbers the mortality from the accident itself, suggesting the decision to cease …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …

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 … larger population of elderly people, with exceptions such as Norway and Japan, for which other factors seem to dominate. Our …

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find … the impact of alcohol on short-run mortality, and underscores the severe influence that alcohol has on society - even in …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …