experienced significantly higher all-cause mortality in middle and old ages relative to “neighbor” cohorts. In a widely cited … neutral Norway must clearly go beyond the direct (soldiers wounded physically and mentally) and indirect effects (rationing of … food) of WW I on laterlife mortality. This paper suggests that Spanish Influenza 1918-19 is the most important of several …

mortality and morbidity, the latter being related to participation/productivity in the labor market. We show that, regardless of …

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 …

We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

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 …

most robust population groups and the previously healthy that had highest mortality rates. Much of the literature favors … the view that Spanish Influenza was class neutral with respect to mortality. This paper uses individual level data and …

instrumental variables estimation we find that retirement age has no effect on mortality. …This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering … the full population of Norway. We make use of a series of retirement policy changes in Norway, which reduced the …

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school … administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care … at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0 …

causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … takes account of selectivity in partners' mortality and health evolution. We find strong instantaneous effects of … bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …