We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death … cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death … cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life events include bereavement, severe illness in the family, and the …

There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong … the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating the extent to which heath behaviors and health care utilization patterns … attributable to bereavement have a negative effect on survival but account for a small part of the overall negative effect of …

This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a … spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The … that bereavement affects someone’s marginal utility of income, and suggest a procedure for correcting for the endogeneity …

whether there is heightened mortality of mothers after the death of a child. Results from Cox proportional hazard models … indicate that the death of a child produces a statistically significant hazard ratio of 2.3. There is suggestive evidence that … the heightened mortality is concentrated in the first two years after the death of a child. We find no difference in …

authors examine the spaces of dying and death, which are created in a place designed to save life, and not necessarily to … needs of patients as death nears in the ED and argues that the critical decisions made in the ED have a significant impact …