We study the effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on health among Brazilian workers. We construct a novel dataset linking individual-level administrative records on employment, hospital discharges, and mortality for a 17-year period, rarely available in the context of developing...

We study the causal effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on hospitalization and mortality for Brazilian workers. We construct a novel dataset that merges millions of individual-level administrative records on employment, hospital discharges, and mortality for a period of 17 years....

This paper uses the genealogical records of 36,456 males to construct the reproduction and survival pattern of six Chinese lineages from 1350 to 1920. I first test for a Darwinian trade-off between reproduction and long-run survival in the six lineages. The empirical results suggest an absence...