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This contribution starts out by noting a conflict of interest between consumers and insurers. Consumers face positive correlation in their assets (health, wealth, wisdom, i.e. skills), causing them to demand a great deal of insurance coverage. Insurers on the other hand eschew positively...
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In this study we analyze the relationship between heat events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are …: Does heat lead to rising mortality and if yes, are the effects persistent or compensated for in the near future …? Furthermore, we consider differences between heat effects in urban and rural environments. Cause specific daily mortality and …
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survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …
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macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular …
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with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …
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explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …
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We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher … increased mortality among male early retirees. …
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for comparison of these very countries is the territorial closeness and the mutual long past. The mortality rate of …'s. As explanatory variables for the mortality rate of the working age population the following variables are taken into …
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ensure the available information is exploited. To demonstrate its application, data on mortality following hospital treatment … for treatment costs. We relied on the Ontario Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality Prediction Rules as a disease … in hospital costs by 100 to increase the hazard of dying, i.e. mortality, by 0.43%. The negative association between …
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mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … effect on mortality but that state and regional economic conditions are stronger predictors. I also leverage county …
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