optimization works with stochastic investment returns and stochastic mortality, extending and combining different investment and …

age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life … recent widening of mortality rates between rich and poor due to lifestyle-related diseases does not explain much of the rise … poor, made initial differences in lifestyle-related mortality more consequential via survivability. …

yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … Asia. We argue that these findings largely rely on the choice of the reference standard for sex-specific mortality and an …

. We estimate that a one standard deviation increase in judicial claims increases the all-cause mortality rate by between 0 ….10 and 0.23 standard deviations. Increases in mortality are pervasive across causes, with the largest increase in deaths from …

faster and mortality risk rises. I calibrate the model to a reference American with bmi 28. Due to weight loss addiction, the …

-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage … cigarette taxes is associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking participation and a 6 percent reduction in mortality …