the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …Comparisons among countries can help to identify opportunities for the reduction of inequalities in health. We compared …

relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality, controlling for local area and time fixed effects. Consistent with … significant reductions in mortality. Models of mortality by source indicate that the negative relationship between unemployment … and mortality is strongest for deaths due to cardiovascular disease and accidents. A finding that mortality among the …

This paper analyses the impact of health, pension systems and longevity on savings. It uses a simple life-cycle model … embodying social transfers (health care and pension expenditures) and changes in longevity to determine the level of household … of view of incentive to save, health transfers have a similar impact as pension replacement rates. Therefore, welfare …

In contrast to health shocks, mortality shocks do not only induce direct costs such as medical and funeral expenses and …

overall health inequality according to the different normative principles. Our results suggest that, in practice, the … contributions of circumstances and efforts to explained health inequality. …

How does the retirement age affect the physical and mental health of seniors? We identify this effect based on the 1993 … pension and the number of reference earning years taken to calculate pensions. We use a unique database on health and … even a deterioration in their health between 1999 and 2005. Subsequently, taking the reform as a tool to filter out the …

in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality in France. It examines three alternative specifications of … issue at stake is how to treat the correlation between circumstances and effort. Using a representative French health survey … circumstances to inequalities in health ranges between 44.5% and up to 46.4% according to the scenario, whereas the contribution of …

-related miscarriage. Building on the specific features of the French Health insurance system, this paper shows that variation in the … test. By contrast, the sole fact of being labelled 'high-risk' by the Health system seems to have, as such, only a modest …