Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt …, and the United States, and with unemployment rate changes in Japan, for the period 19502005. In recent years, the … relationship between the state of the economy and mortality is found to change from procyclical to countercyclical in all six …

geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …

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 …

; Mortality Risk Reductions ; Cost-benefit Analysis ; Forced Choice Questions …