to use their ample material resources to prevent, manage and cure the ill-health that caused so many premature deaths …. Along with the poor, they therefore were left at a grave health disadvantage vis-à-vis adult members of the wealthy urban …

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 …

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

Johansson (2010) in support of her thesis regarding “Europe’s first knowledge‐driven mortality transition,” namely the … significance of a particular pattern of inter‐cohort changes in the royals’ mortality experience – namely, one whose timing and age …‐cohort comparisons of life table mortality schedules are obtained by using the 5‐year average survival rates distributions for successive …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual … negative effect of economic conditions early in life on the individual CV mortality rate at higher ages. There is no effect on … the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …

There has been a longstanding debate about the link between political representation and health. In this article, I … representation generated substantive health benefits for the general population. Using the exemplary case of Switzerland, I first … redistribution or total spending. Based on comprehensive archival mortality statistics since 1890, I then demonstrate that the …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …