accurate modelling and projection of mortality rates and life expectancy play a central role and represent issues of great … interest in recent literature. Our study refers to the Italian mortality experience and considers an indexing mechanism based … performances of selected stochastic mortality models, a model assembling technique is applied to face uncertainty in model …

The strong association between income and mortality raises the question whether more generous social security systems … introduction of social pensions targeted at poor elderly people in the late 19th-early 20th century, has reduced mortality rates of … regression discontinuity design, I find no evidence for a decline in elderly mortality due to the introduction of social pensions …