Search Results - subject:"life expectancy"

Potential gains in life expectancy by eliminating deaths from cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus in the working life ages among Slovak population

Gavurova, Beata; Vagasova, Tatiana - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 16, pp. 1-8

economic and health system of the Slovak Republic considerably. By eliminating these deaths, the life expectancy could be … diseases, this article aims to assess the potential gains in life expectancy (PGLEs) of the Slovak population comparing the … groups population (25–44 and 45–64 years). Results: The highest impact on life expectancy was recorded in chronic ischemic …

On the heterogeneity in longevity among socioeconomic groups : scope, trends, and implications for earnings‐related pension schemes

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Holzmann, … - 2016

reviewed in the paper. Heterogeneity in life expectancy disaggregated by main socioeconomic characteristics - such as age …

On the demographics and the severity of the social security crisis

Gahramanov, Emin - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 16 (2016) 2, pp. 1001-1028

Getting Life Expectancy Estimates Right for Pension Policy: Period versus Cohort Approach

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Holzmann, Robert - 2018

In many policy areas it is essential to use the best estimates of life expectancy, but such estimates are vital to most … period and dynamic cohort mortality tables, estimates the differences in life expectancy between both tables using data from … Portugal and Spain, and compares official estimates of both life expectancy estimates for Australia, the United Kingdom, and …

Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs

Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2018

This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in empirically estimated deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions...

Getting life expectancy estimates right for pension policy : period versus cohort approach

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Holzmann, … - 2018

Marital shocks and women’s welfare in Africa

Djuikom, Marie Albertine; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2018

Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs

Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2018

Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs

Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2018

The option value of innovative treatments for metastatic melanoma

Snider, Julia Thornton; Seabury, Seth; Tebeka, Mahlet Gizaw - 2018