mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

medical progress: decreased mortality risk, milder and slower development over time, making the time with disease (and health …The objective is to review the evidence on (a) ageing and health and (b) the demand for health- and social services … among the elderly. Issues are: does health status of the elderly improve over time, and how do the trends in health status …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to higher unemployment rates in the pre-retirement years on subsequent … mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when …

mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find frailer survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely …. Among survivors to 1900, those younger than 30 at imprisonment faced higher older age mortality and morbidity and worse …

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and … in individuals' own behavior contribute very little to pro-cyclical mortality. Looking across broad age and gender groups …, we find that own-group employment rates are not systematically related to own-group mortality. In addition, we find that …

We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products …. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a … portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to explain the observed variation in health and mortality delta implied …

before. We use this discontinuity in eligibility to measure the impact of public health insurance on mortality by following …This paper uses a policy discontinuity to identify the immediate and long-term effects of public health insurance … mortality by the underlying causes of death, distinguishing between deaths due to internal and external causes. We also examine …

a range of health behaviors. Using longitudinal survey data that include pre- and post- reports from the same … individuals, we investigate the effects of the crisis on smoking, heavy drinking, dietary behaviors, sleep, and other health … behaviors and investigate changes in work hours, real income, wealth, and mental health as potential mediators. We also consider …