Western European and English-speaking (WE&ES) countries suggested that smoking-related mortality at ages 50+ was largely … particularly high excess male mortality at young and middle ages that couldn`t be fully attributed to the smoking-related causes …. We use the Human Mortality Database to examine the patterns and time trends in male/female differences in LE across 41 …

advances (e.g., antibiotics), the analysis establishes that countries with higher levels of mortality from infectious diseases …

analysis establishes that countries with higher levels of infectious-disease mortality prior to the medical breakthrough …

Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the … despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women … continued to decrease in several other high-income countries including Germany. However, average mortality rates can disguise …

This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering … instrumental variables estimation we find that retirement age has no effect on mortality. …