Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of studies to explore the long … mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth …

We examine the role of declining mortality in explaining the rise of retirement over the course of the 20th century. We … of death. In an environment in which mortality is high, an individual who saved up for retirement would face a high risk …. As mortality falls, however, it becomes optimal to plan, and save for, retirement. We simulate our model using actual …

This article provides a comprehensive econometric analysis of factors driving aggregate mortality rates over time. It …-economic and ecological factors as explanatory variables. Germany is chosen as an indicative example for other industrialized … countries due to its advanced demographic transition process. Our regression analysis, which covers the time interval 1956 …

Using data for six OECD countries, this paper studies the effect of macroeconomic conditions on the mortality index kt … relationship between the state of the economy and mortality is found to change from procyclical to countercyclical in all six … variation in the mortality index. …

transition. We show that if parents invest their own time into children's human capital, rising adult life expectancy …