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A preliminary look at readmission and mortality among chronically critically ill and other medically complex Medicare patients

Coomer, Nicole M.; Morley, Melissa; Ingber, Melvin; … - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 20, pp. 1435-1438

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Changing relationship between unemployment and mortality in South Korea

Lee, Chulhee; Kim, Kyeongbae - In: Health economics 26 (2017) 12, pp. 1630-1636

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Let the little children come to me

Portela, Miguel; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018

We document the relationship of a set of individual choices - including parenthood, marital state, and income - with an individual's cause of death. Using the data set of the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS-LS) which follows one percent of the population of England and...

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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

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The complex effects of retirement on health : retirement offers the potential for improved health, yet also creates the risk of triggering bad health behavior

Kuhn, Andreas - 2018

Retirement offers the opportunity to give up potentially risky, unhealthy, and/or stressful work, which is expected to foster improvements in retirees’ health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily routines, physical and/or mental activity, a sense...

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Can pension funds partially manage longevity risk by investing in a longevity megafund?

Debonneuil, Edouard; Eyraud-Loisel, Anne; Planchet, … - In: Risks : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-27

Pension funds, which manage the financing of a large share of global retirement schemes, need to invest their assets in a diversified manner and over long durations while managing interest rate and longevity risks. In recent years, a new type of investment has emerged, that we call a longevity...

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The impact of mental problems on mortality and how it is moderated by education

Bijwaard, Govert; Myrskylä, Mikko; Tynelius, Per - 2018

Mental disorders have a large impact on invalidity and mortality. Poor mental health is associated with low education …, which is also associated with poor health and higher mortality. The association between mental health and mortality may … mental health problems, education attainment and mortality may all depend on the same observed and unobserved individual …

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A neural-network analyzer for mortality forecast

Hainaut, Donatien - In: Astin bulletin : the journal of the International … 48 (2018) 2, pp. 481-508

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Age-specific adjustment of graduated mortality

Salhi, Yahia; Thérond, Pierre-E. - In: Astin bulletin : the journal of the International … 48 (2018) 2, pp. 543-569

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Bismarck's health insurance and the mortality decline

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2018

We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in … significant mortality reduction. Despite the absence of antibiotics and most vaccines, we find the results to be largely driven by …

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