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

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

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

and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history …-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult mortality between rural and urban areas. Our findings indicate that child … mortality is higher in rural areas for almost all countries. On average child mortality rates are 13.6 percent in rural areas …

safety measures are costly for firms, they reduce workers' mortality. We show that the presence of search frictions decreases … the socially optimal level of occupational safety relative to a frictionless labor market, leading to excess mortality. In … US, we find that search frictions explain 8%-14% of the work-related mortality rate, which indirectly makes them the …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …