This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … substantially lower the mortality risk for women. The results for men point towards lower effectiveness likely due to stigma effects …

I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds … for pension claiming in Germany. The analysis is based on unique social security records that document the age at death …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects …

I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a … an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality in England and Wales declined after the pension was introduced. The … estimated mortality decline is economically relevant, more pronounced in counties with a higher share of pensioners and is …

wealth on receiving attention from on's children. This paper illustrates that these results from the past should be … interpreted with some care as the relationship between wealth and children's attention is sensitive to the type of financial … parents or job and location restrictions for children hamper informal care provision by one's children. …

avoidable mortality from IHD.This is important, as the modernization of the East German health sector included a considerable …

variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in …-hospital mortality rates. We also find signs of premature discharge, as patients with short lengths of stay tend to exhibit higher …