How much have government programs improved elderly well-being? I examine the impact of OAA on mortality between 1930 …-1955. I construct two new data sets: a database on OAA, and a database on elderly mortality. To control for the joint … determination of income and mortality, I use a simulated IV approach that relies on exogenous changes in OAA legislation. I find …

mortality and to explore implications for the welfare consequences of recessions. We estimate that an increase in the … unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession reduces the average, annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 2.3 percent …, with effects persisting for at least 10 years. Mortality reductions appear across causes of death and are concentrated in …

mortality and would reduce healthcare spending at 10 years and beyond …

COVID-19 Pandemic struck in 2020 and hit the minority community much harder than whites in terms of mortality rates. Besides …

of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in … excess mortality is statistically significant in the immediate weeks following SIP implementation for the international … of the policy. At the U.S. state-level, excess mortality increases in the immediate weeks following SIP introduction and …