particular work package is to describe and model health and morbidity, and the associated use of health services, by age and … socio-economic characteristics across the EU. Although many studies find that time to mortality, rather than age, is more … (and health status where applicable). This finding concurs with previous research that argues that it is time to mortality …

administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …