Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … restricted to very particular causes of death, but is mostly driven by adult and old age mortality. We calculate that welfare … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply …

political spectrum wanted mortality and healthcare to be distributed more evenly among the rich and poor than they estimated …

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 …