experienced significantly higher all-cause mortality in middle and old ages relative to “neighbor” cohorts. In a widely cited … food) of WW I on laterlife mortality. This paper suggests that Spanish Influenza 1918-19 is the most important of several … only a small proportion died of it immediately.The net effect on later life mortality is thus assumed to be that of …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …