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 …

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 …

, 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 …

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 …

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