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No consistent effects of prenatal or neonatal exposure to Spanish flu on late-life mortality in 24 developed countries

Cohen, Alan; Tillinghast, John; Canudas-Romo, Vladimir - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 20, pp. 579-634

We test the effects of early life exposure to disease on later health by looking for differences in late-life mortality … in cohorts born around the 1918-1919 flu pandemic using data from the Human Mortality Database for 24 countries. After … controlling for age, period, and sex effects, residual mortality rates did not differ systematically for flu cohorts relative to …

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A Newly Developed Japanese Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality Model and Statistical Analysis of Excess Mortality by Stochastic Frontier Estimation.

Sindo, N.; Li, M.; Ohkusa, Y.; Taniguchi, K. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

Models which estimate influenza mortality probably overestimate this mortality because their baseline estimates include … only nonepidemic weeks. We present a stochastic frontier estimation model which better reflects influenza mortality. …

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Socioeconomic Determinants of Mortality in Taiwan: Combining Individual Data and Aggregate Data

Gonzalez, Roberto Leon; Tseng, Fu-Min - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) - 2009

mortality data have been criticized for estimating an aggregate model that does not account for non-linear links between health … mortality data with individual level data on socio-economic characteristics. We test the relative and absolute income hypotheses … using county level mortality data from Life Statistic of Department of Health and individual level data from Taiwan census …

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150 Years of temperature-related excess mortality in the Netherlands

Ekamper, Peter; Poppel, Frans van; Duin, Coen van; … - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 14, pp. 385-426

population to both high and low outdoor temperatures. The magnitude of temperature-related mortality is strongly related to a … mortality, we analyze Dutch individual death records in relation to daily temperature for the period 1855-2006 for one of the 11 …

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Agricultural productivity and mortality: evidence from Kagera, Tanzania

Ikegami, Munenobu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural … productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of …

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The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries

Brainerd, Elizabeth - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

changes in adult mortality rates. An upsurge of cardiovascular and external cause mortality caused a massive premature loss of … life among working-age men in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. In contrast, cardiovascular mortality has fallen at a … changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about …

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What is the Value of Hazardous Weather Forecasts? Evidence from a Survey of Backcountry Skiers

Alberini, Anna; Rheinberger, Christoph M.; Leiter, Andrea; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

What is the value of hazardous weather warnings? To answer this question, we focus on the avalanche bulletin for Switzerland issued by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF). We take a survey-based, non-market valuation approach to estimating the value of hypothetical...

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Stratified Partial Likelihood Estimation.

Ridder, G.; Tunali, I. - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 1997

When multiple durations are generated by a single unit, they may be related in a way that is not fully captured by the regressors. The omitted unit-specific variables might vary over the durations. They might also be correlated with the variables in the regression compenent. We propose an...

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Gradients in Potential Years of Life Lost by Socio-Economic Group in Ireland.

O'Shea, E.; Connolly, S. - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 2000

The objective of this paper is to investigate socio-economic mortality differentials for men aged between 15 and 69 in … Ireland, using years of potential life lost (YPLL) as a measure of premature mortality. …

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'Til Death Do Us Part: Marital Disruption and Mortality.

Lillard, L.A.; Waite, L.J. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1993

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