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children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …
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children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694919
probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …
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We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change … men retiring one year earlier causes a 6.8% increase in the risk of premature death and 0.2 years reduction in the age at …
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I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds … for pension claiming in Germany. The analysis is based on unique social security records that document the age at death …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects …
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We estimate the effect of additional pension income on mortality outcomes by exploring the eli- gibility criteria of a … to a 2-month delay in age at death (censored at 75). Survey evidence suggests that additional pension income improves …
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I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a … an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality in England and Wales declined after the pension was introduced. The … estimated mortality decline is economically relevant, more pronounced in counties with a higher share of pensioners and is …
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This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 … 60 and 69, for almost all individuals. Heterogeneous analysis indicates that the increase in mortality is stronger for … retirement schemes, such as partial retirement, mitigates the detrimental effect of delaying retirement on mortality. …
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work if they worked as much as those with the same mortality rate in the past (Milligan-Wise method). Second, we estimate …
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A robust relationship between subjective well-being and mortality has been established in the literature. While this … claims for the benefits of well-being on mortality: while life satisfaction generally predicts longer survival in the data …
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