This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment …-level worker characteristics, such as firm-level average mortality rates for mortality during the four years prior to the year of … observation. On the mechanism driving the effect of job loss on mortality, we provide evidence for an effect running through …

time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …