Many scholars claim that democracy improves the welfare of the poor. This article uses data
on infant and child mortality to challenge this claim. Cross‐national studies tend to exclude …

Objective: To identify which aspects of socioeconomic change were associated with the
steep decline in life expectancy in Russia between 1990 and 1994. Design: Regression …

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many
other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy …

The health situation in Russia has often been characterized as a long‐running crisis. From
the 1960s until the beginning of the 2000s, the declining life expectancy trend was …

In Russia, rates of alcohol consumption and homicide are among the highest in the world,
and already-high levels increased dramatically after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Rates …

Aims and design This study employs unique newly available Russian mortality data to
examine the social connection between binge drinking and homicide in the country. Setting …

After several decades of negative trends and short-term fluctuations, life expectancy has
been increasing in Russia since 2004. Between 2003 and 2014, the length of life rose by 6.6 …

Mortality from ill-defined conditions in Russia has the fastest rate of increase compared to all
other major causes of death. High proportion of deaths in this category is indicative for low …

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia were quite
comparable in terms of their socioeconomic development. Despite some differences in …

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has seen its births plummet and its
deaths increase sharply. Mortality increases have been particularly steep for working-age …