study was subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality …. I show that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period … that I studied, and that my estimates are completely insensitive to the inclusion or exclusion of infant mortality …

. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …

premature death, pension policies and long-term care. -- life expectancy ; mortality ; optimal public policy …

, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …. -- Family health program ; mortality ; household behavior ; impact evaluation ; Brazil …

This paper examines the association between lifetime income and old age mortality risk, referred to as the income-mortality … gradient, in Italy during the 1980s and 1990s. We extend the literature by estimating the income-mortality gradient using Cox …, most importantly, by providing empirical evidence for Italy on the evolution of the income-mortality gradient between the …

-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline …