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) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … death cause. The birth weight distribution does not vary over the business cycle. The association between birth weight … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …
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Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the …
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We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … any adverse effect early retirement onmortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher incidence of … cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain increased mortality among …
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survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external … causes of death (homicide, suicide, and accidents) and stress associated with a poor outlook for the future. However, a large …
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all result from individual decisions. Parents face a trade-off between the number of children they have and the spending … they can afford on each of them in childhood. These childhood development spending will determine children longevity when … second trade-off in allocating their time between increasing their own human capital and rearing children. The model displays …
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …
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This paper studies the relation between macroeconomic fluctuations and corporate defaults while conditioning on industry affiliation and an extensive set of firm-specific factors. Using a multiperiod logit approach on a panel data set for all incorporated Swedish businesses over 1990-2002, we...
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This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...
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We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. In the evaluation we allow for selectivity affecting the...
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This Paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative wage effect of about 10% while the use of alcohol has a positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and...
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