mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth … group. Cohorts born in Finland during the Great Finnish Famine are highly heterogeneous in their distribution of deaths …

This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment …-level worker characteristics, such as firm-level average mortality rates for mortality during the four years prior to the year of … observation. On the mechanism driving the effect of job loss on mortality, we provide evidence for an effect running through …

We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher … increased mortality among male early retirees. …

We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects …