Private Matters: The Effects of Privatization on Adult Mortality in the former Eastern Bloc
The post-communist mortality crisis of the former Eastern Bloc was one of the largest peacetime mortality increases in modern history. Not without controversy, an increasingly large body of research has attributed this mortality surge to stress at the societal level. This paper adds to that research by using panel data from 25 countries between 1959 and 2006. Using difference-in-differences estima