for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the … propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk …

We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom … England and Wales. We make use of two waves of a representative survey, the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and … Lifestyles (Natsal2, conducted in 2000-2001 and Natsal3, conducted in 2010-2012) to illustrate the changes in demand that have …

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger …

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in …

the English. In contrast, age specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries with an even higher risk among the … Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher immediate risk of new disease onset compared to … English after age 65. Our second aim explains large financial gradients in mortality in the two countries. Among 55-64 year …

with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live …