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 … a means of tracking the dynamics of outbreaks in the ``first wave'' and estimating the associated ultimate mortality …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …

mortality countries. Because these populations previously experienced strong decreases in infant mortality, the future mortality … trends will be driven mainly by mortality among the old and oldest-old. The paper gathers empirical background data and … theoretical considerations about past and likely future determinants of mortality including smoking, obesity, biomedical progress …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality … register 1995-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that at least half of the …