Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2021
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the … survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …