positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that the problem of gender bias in mortality is as severe among adults as it is … among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …

mortality countries. Because these populations previously experienced strong decreases in infant mortality, the future mortality … trends will be driven mainly by mortality among the old and oldest-old. The paper gathers empirical background data and … theoretical considerations about past and likely future determinants of mortality including smoking, obesity, biomedical progress …

-life mortality using data from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study of individuals born in 1915-1929. The results suggest a relationship …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality … register 1995-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that at least half of the …