Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … restricted to very particular causes of death, but is mostly driven by adult and old age mortality. We calculate that welfare … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …

the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply …

particular regularity, akin to the compensation effect of mortality. Health deficits converge for men and women and across American …We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the …

technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the temperature-mortality relationship over the … adaptations that may be useful in the coming decades. There are three primary findings. First, the mortality impact of days with a … 14,000 fewer fatalities annually than if the pre-1960 impacts of high temperature on mortality still prevailed. Second …

place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places … affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that …

place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places … affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that …