health. Our measure of self-assessed health is highly correlated with subsequent mortality and the causal harmful effect of …

probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

We apply the theory of inequality in opportunity to measure inequity in mortality. Ourempirical work is based on a rich … dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that … 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 …