causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … takes account of selectivity in partners' mortality and health evolution. We find strong instantaneous effects of … bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …

We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals … demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …

geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …