the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply …

potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … for women. We discuss the implications for policies aimed at improving health and longevity and reducing health inequality. …

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse … relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we … unrelated to the baseline health of the individual, and are significant predictors of retirement. We find that there is no …

All-cause and cause-specific mortality among white U.S. men and women are analyzed using the NHANES I data (1971 …-1975) and epidemiologic follow-up to 1992, to examine the effect of physical stature on mortality, controlling for other … confounding variables within a discrete-time framework. We find an association between mortality and both body mass index (BMI …

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

-1930 to test hypotheses about the link between cardiovascular health and large socioeconomic and political changes in society … men born before 1901. Analyses of secular trends in cardiovascular health complements analyses of secular trends in … anthropometric indicators and together provide a fuller view of the changing health status of a population …

Rico likely reflect the offsetting role of improved health and a stagnant rural economy during the first half of the 20th …

generally in keeping with trends in mortality and in economic activity. The Americans were much taller than Europeans: by the …

. Mortality was less sensitive to shocks than one would expect, while nuptiality was especially sensitive. -- Malthusian models … ; mortality ; fertility ; nuptiality ; guilds …