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Understanding the mechanisms linking college education with longevity
Hong, Kai; Savelyev, Peter A.; Tan, Kegon T.K. - 2020
We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect … potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … longevity is well explained by observed mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that for women, the positive effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200924
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Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity
Hong, Kai - 2020
We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect … potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … longevity is well explained by observed mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that for women, the positive effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837324
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Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity
Hong, Kai - 2020
We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect … potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … longevity is well explained by observed mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that for women, the positive effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856121
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Socioemotional skills, education, and health-related outcomes of high-ability individuals
Savelyev, Peter; Tan, Kegon - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348507
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Smile or die : can subjective well-being increase survival in the face of substantive health impairments?
Binder, Martin; Bünstorf, Guido - 2016
A robust relationship between subjective well-being and mortality has been established in the literature. While this relationship has been confirmed for many measures and data sets, few studies address how it is affected by concrete diseases. In this paper we assess for the British Household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524022
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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013
direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127786
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013
direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076150
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Does Stress Shorten Your Life? Evidence from Parental Bereavement
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2019
This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Allowing for time-varying treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run and in particular for men. This is likely caused by changes toward adverse health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901738
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Does stress shorten your life? : evidence from parental bereavement
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137054