Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments … time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …

dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that …We apply the theory of inequality in opportunity to measure inequity in mortality. Ourempirical work is based on a rich … distinguishing between differentchannels via which mortality is affected is necessary to test the sensitivity of the results …

and the mortalitydata. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rateswith age in the population and in the …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the …

studies we find that among theearly variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinantof adult mortality is …