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Donating Time to Charity: Not Working for Nothing
Aoki, Yu - 2014
This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality …. To identify the causal effect, I exploit the earthquake that occurred in midwestern Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment … increase in the level of volunteering. Based on a comparison of mortality between the municipalities with no or little loss of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333256
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LOS(T) in long-term care: Empirical evidence from German data 2000-2009
Häcker, Jasmin; Hackmann, Tobias - 2010
over time thus supporting the time-to-death hypothesis. An analysis of the mortality rates of LTCDs is to give insight into … the opposing results. But the regression of mortality shows a divergence in the development of mortality rates for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300861
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The Effect of Income on Mortality: New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307387
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The Effect of Income on Mortality - New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310792
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The effect of income on mortality: New evidence for the absence of a causal link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, G. Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310805
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The complex effects of retirement on health
Kuhn, Andreas - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Retirement offers the opportunity to give up potentially risky, unhealthy, and/or stressful work, which is expected to foster improvements in retirees' health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily routines, physical and/or mental activity, a sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820355
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Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality
Kuhn, Andreas; Staubli, Stefan; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; … - 2018
We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931816
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Live Longer and Healthier: Impact of Pension Income for Low-Income Retirees
Malavasi, Chiara; Ye, Han - 2024
We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567528
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Nursing Homes and Mortality in Europe: Uncertain Causality
Flawinne, Xavier; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2022
want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a … in mortality between those two samples is to be attributed to the way nursing homes are designed and organised. Using … matching methods, we observe excess mortality in Belgium, France, Germany Luxembourg, Switzerland, Estonia and Czech Republic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177606
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The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality
Bellés Obrero, Cristina; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Ye, Han - 2022
This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … 60 and 69, for almost all individuals. Heterogeneous analysis indicates that the increase in mortality is stronger for … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426426