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frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …
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's development. Yet little is known about long-run effects of lead exposure during early-life on old-age mortality outcomes. This …
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Using data from the Health and Retirement Survey, we document the changes in assets that occur before a person's death. Applying an event study approach, we find that during the 6 years preceding their deaths, the assets of single decedents decline, relative to those of similar single survivors,...
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We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health …
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This paper investigates whether subjective expectations about future mortality affect consumption and bequests motives … involuntary or accidental. Moreover, parameter estimates using subjective mortality risk perform better in predicting out …-of-sample wealth levels than estimates using life table mortality risks, suggesting that decisions about consumption and saving are …
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estimation of wealth distributions among the living via the mortality multiplier method. The application of detailed mortality … rates by demographics and other determinants of mortality is crucial for obtaining an unbiased representation of the wealth … distribution of the living. Yet, in this paper we suggest that a simplified mortality multiplier method, derived using average …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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We examine ten cohorts of male eighth graders in public schools in Chicago, IL: 1995-2004. We find that composite measures of math achievement, reading achievement, and neighborhood SES during elementary school are strong predictors of future felony arraignment and incarceration, even among...
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The traditional historical narrative claims that White women were rarely involved in market transactions for enslaved people in the antebellum United States. Using transaction records, notary statements, and runaway advertisements, we provide the first quantitative estimates of the extent of...
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We study differences in economic outcomes by perceived skin tone among African Americans using full-count U.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census enumerators and linking these children across population...
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