bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …-794.<P> We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have … causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces …

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 analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …

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 …

. First, we document the magnitude of rural-urban disparities in child nutritional status and under-five mortality across all … entirely mirror the gap in under-five mortality. The most striking difference between the two is in the Latin American and … Caribbean region, where the gap in stunting is more than 1.5 times higher than that in mortality. On average, the rural …

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 …

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