mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … effect on mortality but that state and regional economic conditions are stronger predictors. I also leverage county …

. Mortality also increased during the period under consideration. …

and 2000, and shows a 4% decline in average, municipality-level mortality for people aged 65 and older. The program not …

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. …