misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …

remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

This paper examines whether increased background mortality risks induce households to make differential health … investments in their high- versus low-endowment children. We argue that increases in background mortality risks may … disproportionately affect the survival of the low-endowment sibling, consequently increasing the mortality gap between the high- and low …

-spending areas have significantly lower mortality rates compared to similar visitors in lower-spending areas. The results are robust …

mortality models imply that actual life expectancy of HIV/AIDS patients in 2001 was 13.4 years higher than it would have been if …

We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of movers in the Medicare …

We estimate the causal effects of acute fine particulate matter exposure on mortality, health care use, and medical … expectancy and generic machine learning inference. Both approaches find that mortality effects are concentrated in about 25 …