time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll-out of a reform …-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra compulsory school year … reduced mortality. In fact, the mortality reduction is discernible already before the age of 30 and then grows in magnitude …

on national income using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers as an instrument for the risk of capital … expropriation. Returning to their original sources, I find the settler mortality data suffer from a number of inconsistencies …-stage relationship between mortality and expropriation risk is no longer robust and typically insignificant. Consequently instrumental …

This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering … instrumental variables estimation we find that retirement age has no effect on mortality. …

-effects models are estimated using municipality data from 1996 to 2001. Health is proxied by total mortality rates divided into three …, which has been an important determinant of mortality in many studies, is found to have no effect on health outcomes in our … data. We also find an insignificant effect of per capital number of GPs on mortality. However, the number of vacant …

. Total mortality rates, grouped into four causes of death, were used as proxies for health, and the number of general … that allow for time persistence in mortality rates, incorporate municipal fixed effects, and treat both the number and … relationship between mortality and the number of GPs per capita found in most previous studies. However, there is a significant …

In this paper we analyze mortality caused by 2,194 large flood events between 1985 and 2008 in 108 countries. Unlike … previous studies that looked at natural-disaster mortality, we find that year-to-year changes in income and institutional … determinants of vulnerability do not affect flood mortality directly. Income and institutions influence mortality only indirectly …