to use their ample material resources to prevent, manage and cure the ill-health that caused so many premature deaths …. Along with the poor, they therefore were left at a grave health disadvantage vis-à-vis adult members of the wealthy urban …

We study how mortality reductions and income growth interact, looking at their relationship prior to the Industrial … individual health expenditures even when medicine was not effective in postponing death. We then explain the rise of effective … medicine by a learning process function of expenditures in health. The rise in effective medicine can then be linked to the …

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

Johansson (2010) in support of her thesis regarding “Europe’s first knowledge‐driven mortality transition,” namely the … significance of a particular pattern of inter‐cohort changes in the royals’ mortality experience – namely, one whose timing and age …‐cohort comparisons of life table mortality schedules are obtained by using the 5‐year average survival rates distributions for successive …

There has been a longstanding debate about the link between political representation and health. In this article, I … representation generated substantive health benefits for the general population. Using the exemplary case of Switzerland, I first … redistribution or total spending. Based on comprehensive archival mortality statistics since 1890, I then demonstrate that the …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the …

. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health and mortality, we find that import had a detrimental effect on …This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first … physical and mental health that is concentrated in those areas and exhibits strong persistence. It decreased health care …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …