geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …

uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …

infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

health shock that affected predominantly old-age mortality; i.e., the fourth stage of the epidemiological transition. Using a … differences-in-differences estimation strategy, we find that U.S. states with higher levels of cardiovascular-disease mortality …

This paper considers the rural mortality transition over 1900 to 1930. While previous work has extensively documented … urban mortality transition over this period (Armstrong et al., 1999; Haines, 2001; Cutler and Miller, 2005), declines in U ….S. rural mortality have been understudied. This article fills this gap in the literature by first establishing the size of the …