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 …

men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at … older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially … across countries and over time within countries. At each mortality rate in 2007, if American men between the ages of 55 and …

developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …

new panel data set of 75 cities for each year between 1929 and 1938 combines mortality rates for older age groups with …

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on … could settle in the colony. In places where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they could not settle and they were more … supporting these hypotheses. Exploiting differences in mortality rates faced by soldiers, bishops and sailors in the colonies in …