effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital … statistics records from a large developing country, Mexico. Using a measure of storm exposure that accounts for both windspeed … dispersion and population density along the storm track, I project changes in past storm-related mortality under various …

Historically, improvements municipal drinking water quality contributed significantly to mortality decline in wealthy … puzzle by analyzing a large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 that dramatically increased access … to chlorinated water. On average, we find that the program led to a 37 to 48% decline in diarrheal mortality among …

of deportees, as well as research with family members and return migrants in Puebla, Mexico, we provide an innovative and …

the city of Cancun, Mexico. Students are given information about: the history of the hotel; key figures involved in the …

Mexico total mortality rates are procyclical, with the largest impact on those aged 20 to 49. While these findings are …While previous studies examine how the business cycle affects mortality in developed countries, less is known about … this relationship in developing countries. In this paper, we investigate whether the procyclical nature of mortality in …

We investigate the relationship between mortality and business cycles within Mexico, where development varies …-2004. We find that while overall mortality is procyclical nationally and in the top ten states, it is countercyclical in the … bottom ten. Further, we show that in the top ten states mortality due to non communicable conditions is procyclical, while in …