health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …

late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …

probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

I study the association between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality, and investigate how well income … and education act as proxy measures for ability. The risk of premature mortality is estimated using Cox proportional … mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality … register 1995-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that at least half of the …

Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This … association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive … the impact of education on mortality using inverse probability weighted (IPW) estimators, using either cognitive ability …