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 …

between changes in birth and mortality rates on the one hand, and dependency ratios on the other, is first discussed, then …