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 …

Large differences in mortality rates across those with different levels of education are a well- established fact. This … association between mortality and education may partly be explained by confounding factors, including cognitive ability. Cognitive … the impact of education on mortality using inverse probability weighted (IPW) estimators, using either cognitive ability …