health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We … estimate flexible duration models where the individual?s mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We … estimate flexible duration models where the individual’s mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college … degrees. Consistent with this, we find that health inequality moves substantially more slowly over the life-course for the …

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … heterogeneity and state dependence. Estimation indicates that there is a large degree of heterogeneity. For half the population … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

We investigate the evolution of health inequality over the life-course. Health is modeled as a latent variable that is … variation in health for the college educated, but between 35% and 70% of total health variability for people without college … degrees. Consistent with this, we find that health inequality moves substantially more slowly over the life-course for the …

spouse, disability, and a move to a nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. For example, the … behavior, health status, and major life events, over time. To deal with endogenous aspects of these events we apply fixed … effects estimation methods. We find some strikingly large effects of certain events on the occurrence of depression. We show …

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. …