The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …

examining whether and how levels of and changes in life satisfaction prospectively predict mortality hazards and delineate the … role of contributing factors, including health, perceived control, and social orientation. To do so, we applied shared … showed that lower levels and steeper declines of life satisfaction each uniquely predicted higher mortality risks. Results …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide evidence that this is likely caused by changes towards adverse health …

We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early … years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in … the expense of public health measures. Food imports were curtailed, and prices of many agricultural products were …

Empirical evidence from several countries reveals that self-rated health is a valid predictor of mortality. So far … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …