is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association …. A 10 percent increase in income increases good health by about 0.01-0.02 standard deviations. …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …

In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between … county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … health status as well as state and industry fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are associated …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

income risks but also from deteriorated health. …We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being …

macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular … physical health. …

survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this upsurge in mortality. Most find little support in the data: the … deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in … mortality rates. The two factors that do appear to be important are alcohol consumption, especially as it relates to external …

as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. Instead the data suggest that workers with … good health are more likely to be promoted. In the private sector, we find that job promotion significantly worsens people …