Provided that the literature on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is overall inconclusive, the fact that …

frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …

study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period … that I studied, and that my estimates are completely insensitive to the inclusion or exclusion of infant mortality …