misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …

, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise. …

to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50-64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect … - women's mortality rate increased after their husbands' deaths. …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we ….3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of …

and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …

county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the … unemployment rate increases their mortality hazard by 6%. There is little to no such relationship for people with weaker labor …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …-treatment reductions in either infant or child mortality. …

longevity advantage for the whole century. Unlike most mortality databases of this period, genealogical data allows analysis of …