county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out important confounding factors including baseline … with higher mortality risk for working-aged men. In particular, we show that a one percentage point increase in the … unemployment rate increases their mortality hazard by 6%. There is little to no such relationship for people with weaker labor …

.3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the …We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of …

, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise …

to this massive marriage market squeeze exhibited higher mortality rates at age 50–64. Surprisingly, the deadly effect …—women's mortality rate increased after their husbands' deaths …

and ethnicity and by education. We then calculate trends and patterns in joint and survivor life expectancy in each census … misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We … estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and … husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find that an additional year in husband's education is associated with an …

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …