We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects …

mortality, including age, gender, SES, and disability. These findings suggest that feeling in control may ameliorate steep end …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …

analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …