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Childbearing History, Later Life Health, and Mortality in Germany
Hank, Karsten - 2010
and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600947
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A structural model of coronavirus behaviour: What do four waves of Covid tell us?
Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - 2022
updated our policy comparison with Sweden for the most recent data, with similar conclusions.: lower Swedish lockdown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480726
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Risk and mortality of recurrent breast cancer in Stockholm 1985 - 2005
Lundkvist, Jonas; Kasteng, Frida; Lidgren, Mathias; … - 2007
The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk and mortality of breast cancer recurrences in Swedish women, and to …-2005 . Mortality has also been reduced, resulting in an increased 5-year survival from 52.6% to 64.1% after locoregional recurrence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281338
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Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous Source of Variation in Income
Lindahl, Mikael - 2002
with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262805
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Saving on a Rainy Day, Borrowing for a Rainy Day
Alan, Sule; Crossley, Thomas; Low, Hamish - 2012
-cycle framework how individuals respond to recessions. Our focus is on the sharp increase in savings rates that have been observed in … times. We show that the rise in the aggregate savings ratio is driven by increases in uncertainty, rather than tighening of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500212
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The impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical expenditure in Sweden, 1997-2010: Evidence from longitudinal, disease-level data
Lichtenberg, Frank; Pettersson, Billie - 2012
expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … utilization in Sweden, so the cost per life-year gained from the introduction of new drugs was quite low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283600
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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth
Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024
We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581860
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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality, and the Role of Socio-Economic Status
Cramer, Jan S. - 2012
data set. This data set combines information at ages 12, 43, 53 and mortality between 53 and 71 for a sample of some 3000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326427
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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: First Report
Cramer, J.S. - 2011
studies we find that among theearly variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinantof adult mortality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326478
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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: Technical Report
Cramer, J.S. - 2011
and the mortalitydata. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rateswith age in the population and in the … sample. The third section setsout the proportional hazard model that has been used in the analysisand its estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326549