In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history …-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult mortality between rural and urban areas. Our findings indicate that child … mortality is higher in rural areas for almost all countries. On average child mortality rates are 13.6 percent in rural areas …

safety measures are costly for firms, they reduce workers' mortality. We show that the presence of search frictions decreases … the socially optimal level of occupational safety relative to a frictionless labor market, leading to excess mortality. In … US, we find that search frictions explain 8%-14% of the work-related mortality rate, which indirectly makes them the …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …