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We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a …
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We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
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We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural lifespan. In contrast to previous findings of shortened lifespan among US presidents and other heads of state, we find that US governors and other political office holders live over...
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This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … 60 and 69, for almost all individuals. Heterogeneous analysis indicates that the increase in mortality is stronger for … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality. …
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We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change …
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analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …
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health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …
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Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...
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development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our research design exploits the variation in the timing of the deployment … mortality rates. According to our point estimates, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … services would lower the overall mortality rate by 1.4 percent, the adult mortality rate by 1.9 percent, and the elderly …
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Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic position and outlines key ingredients to make it a successful experience. Yet to turn this challenge...
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