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 …

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 … Medicare becomes available. All of these experiences could contribute to weaker long-term health outcomes. To examine these …

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 …

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 …

men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at …Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older … older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially …

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during … that there were no pre‐dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would have been parallel … trends in mortality in the absence of innovation, the estimates indicate that there were three major sources of the 13 …

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 …