-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …

Australia, a country with universal health care. Using administrative time-series data on mortality that varies by state, age … than good due to the economic contraction, despite a large literature that finds mortality rates decline during recessions …. We estimate the relationship between unemployment, a widely accepted proxy for economic climate, and mortality in …

consumption in the world. Consequently, they also have some of the highest male mortality rates in the world. Regulation can be … high rates of mortality. Understanding the consequences of specific regulatory measures and what tools should be used to …

-lite mortality using data from the Uppsala birth cohort study of individuals born in 1915–1929. The results suggest a relationship …

costs. Such transitory costs are generally underestimated or neglected by incumbent governments. The mortality crisis …