A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the … relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the …

A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the … relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the …

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 … substantially lower the mortality risk for women. The results for men point towards lower effectiveness likely due to stigma effects …

of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run and in particular for men. This is …This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Allowing for time-varying treatment effects, I find no impact … effects of mental health support, I find that it lowers the mortality risk for women. The results for men point toward lower …

This article provides a comprehensive econometric analysis of factors driving aggregate mortality rates over time. It …-economic and ecological factors as explanatory variables. Germany is chosen as an indicative example for other industrialized … countries due to its advanced demographic transition process. Our regression analysis, which covers the time interval 1956 …

aggregate mortality rates over time. It differs from previous contributions in this field by simultaneously considering an … that sex- and age-specific mortality rates vary substantially in their response to external factors. Strongest associations … age group that capture a substantial fraction of the observed variation in annual mortality change, and thereby confirm …

mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …

Johansson (2010) in support of her thesis regarding “Europe’s first knowledge‐driven mortality transition,” namely the … tests show the gross changes of interest to be statistically significant. The discussion contrasts the mortality transition … significance of a particular pattern of inter‐cohort changes in the royals’ mortality experience – namely, one whose timing and age …

We develop a quantitative theory of mortality trends and population dynamics. We emphasize diseases as causes of death … and individuals' decisions to reduce their mortality by adopting, at some cost, a modern health-related technology … generates an S-shaped diffusion curve, whose shape dictates the pace of mortality reduction in each country. We use the model to …