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how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce … mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of … mortality events and weather forecasts for a twelve-year period in the U.S. Results show that erroneously mild forecasts …
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codes fixed-effects regression models on the following AMI outcomes: time-specific mortality rates, age, and probability of … PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among patients in communities … time, we find a substantial increase in long-term mortality rates, a shift to younger ages (suggesting that the older ones …
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In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the estimation of...
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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 …
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, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using … behind. Each component we introduce plays a significant role in accounting for these differences, with mortality being most …
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We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the longevity of all hospital patients, i.e. patients with a variety of medical conditions. The analysis is based on data on over one million discharges from public and private hospitals in Western Australia (WA) during...
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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 …
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We use novel data to study the decision to undergo genetic testing by individuals at risk for Huntington disease (HD), a hereditary neurological disorder that reduces healthy life expectancy to about age 50. Although genetic testing is perfectly predictive and carries little financial or time...
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, saving, and portfolio allocation patterns given stochastic and systematic mortality. Insurers have taken two approaches to … manage systematic mortality risks, namely self-insurance and risk transfer to purchasers of the annuity products. We …
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the use of observed differences in neonatal and one-year mortality rates across genders in response to pollution exposure …
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