focusing on such critical issues as fertility decline, changes in mortality, migration dynamics, acceleration of population …

the effect of context on the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL), an important input into the calculation of the mortality … benefits of environmental policies that reduce premature mortality. We define “context” broadly to include i) the cause of …

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between alcohol-related mortality and social status among men in …,038,654 records of men 35-74 years old, of whom 3824 died of causes explicitly related to alcohol abuse. Standardized mortality ratios … in alcohol-related mortality increased but only between 1981/82 and 1991/92; and among those 35-59 years old only for the …

and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with …