paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the … duration model developed in this paper is a useful tool when analyzing a wide-range of single-spell durations where individual …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of …

mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … effect on mortality but that state and regional economic conditions are stronger predictors. I also leverage county …

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding … strategies seen in the lab and use the simulation to develop hypotheses about why group size should matter when punishment is … rates no lower than small groups because punishment does not fall appreciably in large groups. However, hindrances to …

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

Empirical analyses of twin mortality often use models with dependent unobserved frailty terms capturing genetic and … childhood environmental determinants. This ignores that mortality rates can be co-dependent due to bereavement effects, i.e. to … a time-dependent causal effect of the loss of the co-twin on the mortality rate of the surviving twin. We develop a …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …