how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt … relationship between the state of the economy and mortality is found to change from procyclical to countercyclical in all six … variation in the mortality index. -- Demography ; Lee-Carter ; business cycle ; time series model …

from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most … measures where available. The relationship with life expectancy is significant and positive. Infant mortality correlates …

, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective …