We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals … demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …

and endogenous mortality. Climate change impacts the economy through two channels. First, a degrading environmental … quality increases mortality, affecting the demand for health care. Second, production losses are caused through deteriorating …-induced mortality increases demand for medical care, reduced income tends to lower health spending, particularly among the elderly …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This …

-satisfaction measures. The paper shows that there are approximately quadratic hill-shaped patterns in data on midlife suicide, sleeping …

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match … district level administrative crime data by category to age- specific sex ratios in census data across four decades and, to … analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on marriage rates and household survey data on attitudes to violence …