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 …

overall educational mortality disparity between 1981/82 and 1991/92 among Austrian adults aged 30-74 years. Besides specific … causes of death, the study also examines educational differentials for both avoidable causes of death and mortality amenable … to medical intervention. The data source is based on a one-year mortality follow-up of the total Austrian census …

Recent studies have reported a widening in the relative mortality gap between the socioeconomic classes in several … industrialized western countries. The present paper aims to determine whether or not education-related differentials in mortality …, the USA and New Zealand. For the Austrian analysis the source of the data is based on a one year mortality follow up of …

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between alcohol-related mortality and social status among men in …,038,654 records of men 35-74 years old, of whom 3824 died of causes explicitly related to alcohol abuse. Standardized mortality ratios … in alcohol-related mortality increased but only between 1981/82 and 1991/92; and among those 35-59 years old only for the …

-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

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 …