differences in their mortality risks. A dynamic optimal stopping-point life cycle model is examined, in which group …-level mortality risk plays an important role in determining individual-level mortality risk, health expenditure,and the amount of … schooling. The model is calibrated to quantify the effect of mortality risks on schooling by taking the black and white male …

beliefs, and there are important differences in the risk perception by race and gender that also may be of policy interest …

mortality and the business cycle identified in previous studies of the general U.S. population may vary by race …In this paper we study the effect of the business cycle on the mortality rate of the major racial groups in the U ….S. Using county-level data from 1999 to 2005, we find that the unemployment rate is negatively related to mortality for whites …

. We utilize mortality and employment data that are specific to a given city, year and race/ethnic group. The analysis …This paper employs U.S. metropolitan data to investigate the relationship between mortality rate and the business cycle … relationship to vary according to the level of economic activity in that metropolitan area. We find that while overall mortality is …

This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and … and had higher older age mortality rates …