We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality … register 1995-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that at least half of the …

analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality … increase in the level of volunteering. Based on a comparison of mortality between the municipalities with no or little loss of … that were not hit by the earthquake, I find that volunteering significantly reduced elderly mortality. Close attention is …

due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … within-state changes in mortality in non-winter months as an additional control group. Our estimates suggest that reductions … in the use of bituminous coal for heating between 1945 and 1960 decreased winter all-age mortality by 1.25 percent and …

-lite mortality using data from the Uppsala birth cohort study of individuals born in 1915–1929. The results suggest a relationship …