invest less in self-protection as measured by influenza vaccination. This result is driven by high risk individuals such as …

’ willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data … willingness to get vaccinated, but these results are less pronounced and less robust. Our results indicate that vaccination … einer hohen Merkmalsreaktanz eine signifikant geringere Bereitschaft zur Impfung zeigen. Sie neigen auch dazu, sich später …

transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), a major new heart attack treatment, on mortality. We use a full sample of administrative … suggest a 4.5 percentage point mortality reduction for patients who have access to this new treatment compared to patients … receiving only conservative treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude …

over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll …,by using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra … compulsory school year reduced mortality. In fact, the mortality reduction is discernible already before the age of 30 and then …

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 …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects … mixed results from the literature I provide evidence that the retirement-mortality nexus is driven by the activity change at …

significant negative relationship between case volume and mortality for complex interventions at the pancreas and oesophagus as …

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 …

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