-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental ….Under monotonicity, each IV identifies a LATE, with potentially different sets of compliers. The RoSLA affected the amount of education … additional years of education thus seem to be similar across the education distribution. Our study corroborates the usefulness of …

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. It extends the previous literature … that focused mostly on the relationship between individuals' own education and their life expectancy. Based on data from … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

mortality risk among forced migrants compared to native West-Germans. The adverse displacement effect persists throughout the … earnings distribution except for the top quintile. Although forced migrants are generally worse off regarding mortality …

-compulsory education level increased after the reform.In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for both … age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the … genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter increase is …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …

causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … takes account of selectivity in partners' mortality and health evolution. We find strong instantaneous effects of … bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …