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On the Mortality of Companies [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2022
Using data from both the US and UK we examine the survival and mortality of companies in both the early stage or start-up and mature phases. The shape of the mortality curve is broadly similar to that of humans. Even small single cellular organisms such as rotifers have a similar shape.
Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner
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Oil and Mortality [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economics and Business, 2021
This paper investigates the impacts of a large and exogenous oil price shock in December 1973 on mortality rates of the major oil producer nations of the Middle East and North Africa. We use longitudinal data from 1960 to 2014 and we apply the difference-in-differences approach to investigate the main question of the research.
Bahram Sanginabadi   +1 more
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Mortality Implications of Mortality Plateaus [PDF]

open access: yesSIAM Review, 2015
This article aims to describe in a unified framework all plateau-generating random effects models in terms of (i) plausible distributions for the hazard (baseline mortality) and the random effect (unobserved heterogeneity, frailty) as well as (ii) the impact of frailty on the baseline hazard. Mortality plateaus result from multiplicative (proportional)
Missov, TI, Vaupel, JW
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Lead and Mortality [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economics and Statistics, 2010
This paper examines the effect of water-borne lead exposure on infant mortality in American cities over the period 1900-1920. Infants are highly sensitive to lead, and more broadly are a marker for current environmental conditions. The effects of lead on infant mortality are identified by variation across cities in water acidity and the types of ...
Karen Clay   +2 more
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Future Mortality in Low-Mortality Countries [PDF]

open access: yesInstitut für Demographie - VID, 2014
4802 This paper provides an overview of past and expected future trends in life expectancy in populations of today's low mortality countries. Because these populations previously experienced strong decreases in infant mortality, the future mortality trends will be driven mainly by mortality among the old and oldest-old.
Caselli, Graziella   +9 more
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Mortality and Excess Mortality: Improving FluMOMO [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
FluMOMO is a universal formula to forecast mortality in 27 European countries and was developed on EuroMOMO context, http://www.euromomo.eu. The model has a trigonometric baseline and considers any upwards deviation from that to come from flu or extreme temperatures.
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Trends in inequality in length of life in India: a decomposition analysis by age and causes of death

open access: yesGenus, 2017
Background Studies dealing with trends in inequality in length of life in India are rare. Studies documenting the contribution of age and causes of death to the inequality in length of life are more limited. Objective The study aims to examine the trends
Abhishek Singh   +3 more
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Risky injection practices and HCV awareness in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand: a respondent-driven sampling study of people who inject drugs

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are the most exposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV). In Thailand, drug use is highly criminalized, and harm reduction services are scarce. This study estimates risky injection practices and assesses the proportion of
Myrtille Prouté   +8 more
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