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, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise. …
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …
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mortality risk. A large (approximately 170,000 individuals) subsample of a quarterly panel data set of individual credit reports … individual mortality risk. This result has implications for the benefit of policies such as the social safety net, which aims to … protect individual finances, by adding reduced mortality to the benefit of any intervention. …
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What effect does rising income inequality have on mortality rates in developed countries? In particular, does the rise … the effect of rising income inequality on mortality rates of men and women in a subset of OECD countries over six decades … from 1950-2008. The authors used adult mortality as the outcome measure and the inverted Pareto-Lorenz coefficient as the …
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There is considerable uncertainty about how reproductive factors affect child mortality. Joint determinants are … diverging results. According to very simple models estimated from DHS data from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mortality is … birth order, have high mortality. Net of such age and birth order differences, a short preceding birth interval is …
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examining whether and how levels of and changes in life satisfaction prospectively predict mortality hazards and delineate the … showed that lower levels and steeper declines of life satisfaction each uniquely predicted higher mortality risks. Results … effects for mortality hazards among older adults. Perceived control is associated with lower mortality hazards; however, this …
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We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von … generated a significant mortality reduction. The results are largely driven by a decline of deaths from infectious diseases. We …
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, research has mainly focused on excess female mortality in Asia. However, as emphasized in our earlier research, at least 30 per … of missing women is distributed across Africa. Moreover, it provides estimates of the extent of excess female mortality … mortality for women in Africa. …
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