-to-death (TTD) effects on Long Term Care. We also account for the problem that mortality, and therefore TTD, are themselves …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …

paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the … duration model developed in this paper is a useful tool when analyzing a wide-range of single-spell durations where individual …

subject to a number of major methodological flaws. Many of their claims pertain to the role of infant mortality; the … that infant mortality was not an important determinant of the growth in U.S. life expectancy during the period that I … studied, and that my estimates are completely insensitive to the inclusion or exclusion of infant mortality. Controlling for …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of …

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 …

We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U … jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a similar … forecasts for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …

Der Beitrag befaßt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit dem Strafrecht ein Eigengewicht im staatlichen Sanktionensystem … zukommt. Im Kern geht es dabei um die wechselseitige Beziehung zwischen Strafrecht und Zivilrecht, die paradigmatisch durch … die Stichworte "Strafe und Schadenersatz" oder "Kriminalität und unerlaubte Handlung" umschrieben werden kann. Es wird …