Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas … between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large micro data base of current and former retired participants in … death between low and high lifetime income are on the order of two to three years. Income-related mortality differences …

This paper develops an overlapping agents model with age-specific mortality rates. The analytical framework also nests … Blanchard''s (1985) ""perpetual youth"" model as a special, though perhaps not realistic, case. With age specific mortality … replicate the empirical relation between age and mortality. The comparative implications for deficit finance are also examined …

We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …

Raising living standards continues to be the main challenge facing Guatemala, as a matter of economic success and … for Guatemala couched within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. Overall, Guatemala faces …

for the specific cases of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras …