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Mortality Change, the Uncertainty Effect, and Retirement
Mortality Change the Uncertainty Eff ect Retirement
2015/9/21
We examine the role of declining mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the
20th century. We construct a model in which individuals make labor/leisure choices over their li...
Neighbourhood characteristics and under-five mortality in Nigeria
Under-five mortality Child survival
2015/7/24
Despite global decline in childhood mortality, under-5 mortality remains high in Nigeria. While many studies have reported individual level factors as important determinants of under-five mortality in...
Using WinBUGS to Study Family Frailty in Child Mortality, with an Application to Child Survival in Ivory Coast
Child Mortality Ivory Coast
2015/7/21
This article analyzes the effects of unobserved family heterogeneity in children survival times through a Bayesian approach. We rely on survey data from Ivory Coast and use a proportional hazard model...
Understanding the Social and Cultural Factors Related to African American Infant Mortality: a Phenomenological Approach
African American Infant Mortality
2015/1/12
Twice as many African American infants die each year when compared to white infants. While infant mortality rates have declined for all ethnic groups in the United States over the past fifty years, th...
Higher male mortality in Russia : a synthesis of the literature
Russia men mortality gender
2015/1/9
Russian demographic statistics reflect the persistence of a dramatically wide gender gap in life expectancy and mortality over the last decades - about twice that found in the developed world. On aver...
Social-Environmental Factors and Suicide Mortality: A Narrative Review of over 200 Articles
Suicide Social Factors Economic Factors Review Durkheim Suicide Prevention
2013/9/5
Suicide mortality in a population has long been thought to be sensitive to social, economic and cultural contexts. This review examined research on the relationship between social-environmental variab...
Social Meanings of Mortality: The Language of Death and Disease in 19th Century Massachusetts
death disease epidemiological transition Massachusetts normativity pragmatism
2014/11/4
This dissertation investigates the emergence and development of cause-of-death registration in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. I examine the historical, demographic, sociopolitical, and theoretical ...
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires
Air Quality Early-Life Mortality Indonesia’s Wildfires
2016/3/7
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact that this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sha...
Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Lead Water Pipes Infant Mortality Twentieth Century
2016/3/7
In 1897, about half of all American municipalities used lead pipes to distribute water. Employing data from Massachusetts, this paper compares infant death rates in cities that used lead water pipes t...
Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states
Mortality Inequality Race Cities States Income USA
2014/3/18
A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded by the effects...
CHILD HEALTH AND MORTALITY
CHILD HEALTH MORTALITY
2014/3/18
Child health and mortality are of interest to economists for three reasons: First, they are important indicators of the success or failure of government policy. Second, children’s health has long-term...