This paper presents an analysis of the differential role of mortality for the optimal schooling and retirement age when … important contributions. First, we provide the conditions under which a decrease in mortality leads to a longer education period …

Background: Bayesian regularization can address over-parameterization of age-period-cohort (APC) mortality models … periods to vary by age. It is applied to overdose mortality rates from the 1999-2015 CDC WONDER data for white non … this group, observed overdose mortality rates increased most markedly for the youngest and oldest ages. Early in the period …