three very different shocks to early-life conditions: (1) exposure to disease and vaccination, studied through the case of … them.For the case of disease and vaccination, the results show that there was no evidence that exposure during early life …

experiment, I estimate the impacts of aggregate vaccination rates on mortality and work absences in the United States. Second, I …Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their … magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural …

redistribution or total spending. Based on comprehensive archival mortality statistics since 1890, I then demonstrate that the … observed shifts in representation and public finances were associated with substantial declines in child mortality by 15% and … in mortality from infectious diseases, the major killer of the time, by 10-15%. …

probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …