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

This paper examines 313 U.S. areas for differences in medical care utilization and mortality of whites ages 65-84 in …. Utilization, especially inpatient care, is strongly positively related to mortality. Mortality is positively related to cigarette … populations greater than 500,000. Mortality does not vary with population size, with or without controls. Florida is an outlier …

model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation … smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that … value of the discounted sum of total expenditures is lower for smokers, mainly because of excess mortality. We find no …

models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … mortality rate, wage, home production, and academic success. On average, having been sick before age 21 decreases the individual …

individuals' subjective believes of their mortality risk. Previous studies have shown that individual responses on subjective …

A large literature following Ruhm (2000) suggests that mortality falls during recessions and rises during booms. The … of the relationship between business cycles and mortality are highly sensitive to assumptions related to migration. After … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …