profitably used in mortality analysis. Vaupel (2003) went a step further, using simulations to investigate the impact of … redundancy, repair capacity, and heterogeneity on the relative length of post-reproductive life spans, called relative tails of … longevity, whereas greater heterogeneity increases it. Here, we consider the problem in much greater generality and prove these …

We highlight the role of local instrumental variable (LIV) methods in exploring treatment effect heterogeneity using an … find evidence that effect of PHI on inpatient mortality vary over levels of unobserved confounders giving rise to a … phenomenon known as essential heterogeneity. Under essential heterogeneity, the traditional instrumental variable (IV) method …

In a heterogeneous cohort, the change with age in the force of mortality or some other kind of hazard or intensity of …

disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using … civil servants became eligible for retirement earlier than expected during a short time window. This exogenous policy change … is used to instrument the retirement choice in a model that explains the probability to die within five years. Exploiting …

. Following the methodology proposed by Milligan and Wise (2012), which uses the cohort mortality rate as a proxy for overall …