Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …Wir untersuchen den Einfluss materieller Umstände auf die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung 50+ in Europa. Dafür analysieren …

This paper is the first to non-experimentally establish a causal relationship between households’ mortality beliefs and … subsequent savings and consumption decisions. Motivated by prior literature on the effect of personal experiences on individual …’s expectation formation, I exploit the death of a close friend as an exogenous shock to the salience of mortality of a household …

The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history … more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …