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The Determinants of Mortality

[Symposium: Disease and Development]

By David Cutler, Angus Deaton, and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2006

The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real incomes was accompanied by a historically unprecedented decline in mortality...

The Trade-Offs of Welfare Policies in Labor Markets with Informal Jobs: The Case of the "Seguro Popular" Program in Mexico

By Mariano Bosch and Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2014

In 2002, the Mexican government began an effort to improve health access to the 50 million uninsured in Mexico, a program known as Seguro Popular (SP). The SP offered virtually free health insurance to informal workers, altering the incentives to opera...

What Can We Learn from Experiments? Understanding the Threats to the Scalability of Experimental Results

By Omar Al-Ubaydli, John A. List, and Dana L. Suskind

American Economic Review, May 2017

Policymakers often consider interventions at the scale of the population, or some other large scale. One of the sources of information about the potential effects of such interventions is experimental studies conducted at a significantly smaller scale. A ...