predictive power for subsequent mortality. Methods: Data are drawn from the GLOBE study, a prospective cohort study conducted in … prospectively for 1991, 1993 and 1995 - to predict mortality until 2004. Proportional hazard models with frailty are used to model … the relationships between health changes and mortality, before and after controlling for a set of pre-existing chronic …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher … increased mortality among male early retirees. …

between income and the probability of death in France. The results show that the risk of mortality is strongly correlated with …

demographic consequences of the Rwandan genocide and how the excess mortality due to the conflict was distributed in the …

This paper investigates inequality in smoking-related mortality risk, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of … smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … overall mortality risk, Sen's welfare index and generalised Lorenz curves are computed for the baseline model and for …

The reduction of child mortality is one of the most universally accepted Millennium Goals. However, there is a … child mortality is mainly determined by the evolution of macroeconomic environment. The influence of per capita income level … on mortality is frequently underlined. But a given income growth does not have the same effect on child survival if it is …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … expectancy and positively related to infant mortality. However, in our preferred fixed-effects specification these relationships …

organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual …