We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the … vital statistics, we document an upward kink in the age-specific yearly mortality rate of individuals in the affected … cohorts. We estimate a negative effect of college on mortality between ages 34-74, which is larger for men, but also sizable …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 …

- come on health. I estimate that lower pension did not change the mortality rate. The results are confirmed using both …I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious … correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first … contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing …

changes during the last ten years in the Estonian benefit system have influenced the incentives. As Estonia belongs to the …

very old (75+). We also study excess-mortality conditional on the mode of OAC. Three forms of publicly provided OAC are … accommodations with home help and home health care, and living in special accommodations with round-the-clock-care. Our results … mortality among cohabitants with home-help services, while it is higher among cohabitants with special accommodation. Our …