Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the … determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of their data: (1 …) correcting infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration on infant mortality by two-thirds, from -43 log …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality. …

development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our research design exploits the variation in the timing of the deployment … mortality rates. According to our point estimates, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would lower the overall mortality rate by 1.4 percent, the adult mortality rate by 1.9 percent, and the elderly …

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 …

and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … pandemic. The mortality burden, whether estimated in lives or in years of life lost, increases sharply with GDP per capita. The … burden of the pandemic, relative to the mortality burden, is much higher for poor countries. The distribution of aggregate …

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

The pioneering medical statistician, William Farr, commented in 1875 on the lack of improvement in maternal mortality … mortality was particularly severe in Northern Ireland. The purpose of this article is to trace the evolution of maternal … mortality in Northern Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century, to relate this to comparable changes in Britain …