The profitability of life insurance offerings is contingent on accurate projections and pricing of mortality risk. The … COVID-19 pandemic created significant uncertainty, with dire mortality predictions from early forecasts resulting in … from Compulife. We estimate event-study models that exploit well-established variation in the COVID-19 mortality rate based …

how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …

This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … 60 and 69, for almost all individuals. Heterogeneous analysis indicates that the increase in mortality is stronger for … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality …

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality …