and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger … declines in mortality rates after tea drinking became widespread and following larger volumes of tea imports. Results are …

We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the … with higher mortality, especially in the summer months when mortality was more likely to be driven by waterborne illnesses …

, we use rich contextual data on morbidity and mortality, as well as on the socioeconomic status of parents, for the period … influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their …

positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries …. Contrary to the existing literature, they find that the problem of gender bias in mortality is as severe among adults as it is … among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …