costs. Such transitory costs are generally underestimated or neglected by incumbent governments. The mortality crisis …

administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing … retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on US cancer mortality rates during the … pre‐dated factors that drove both innovation and mortality and that there would have been parallel trends in mortality in …-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000–2009. Drug innovation and imaging innovation are estimated to have reduced the cancer …

and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by … propensity score weighting methods. An excess risk of both alcohol-related hospitalization and mortality was found among both …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …