Berg, Gerard J. van den; Drepper, Bettina - 2018
Empirical analyses of twin mortality often use models with dependent unobserved frailty terms capturing genetic and … childhood environmental determinants. This ignores that mortality rates can be co-dependent due to bereavement effects, i.e. to … a time-dependent causal effect of the loss of the co-twin on the mortality rate of the surviving twin. We develop a …