This paper investigates the effects of national unemployment rates on overall age and cause-specific mortality rates in …, positive relationship between adverse economic conditions and the mortality …

We provide a comprehensive picture of the health effects of social isolation using longitudinal data over 21 European … isolation index and mortality, which is much stronger in Eastern countries. While all of our pooled countries estimates ranged … between a 20 to 30% increase in the mortality hazard for the socially isolated, that number jumps to 45% for the Eastern …

of Portugal, indicating favorable health and mortality conditions in Poland. However, Poland's greater relative number of … health status across Europe. Variations in HLE, however, do not necessarily reflect underlying differences in health and … mortality levels among countries and are particularly sensitive when broken down by population subgroups. For instance, despite …

We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …

health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …

better understand the transmission of early life circumstances, this paper analyses the effects of health and financial … situation during childhood on quality of life after retirement as well as the mediating role of later life health, educational …. The analyses are based on data of 13,092 retirees aged > 60 and < 85 years from the fifth wave of the Survey of Health …