We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death … cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death … cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class …. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815 … inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of …

bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12 % of residual life expectancy after …We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have … causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces …

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

) 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 …

The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during … first year of life appears to significantly increase all-cause mortality risks and cancer mortality risks of older males and … females. It also significantly increases mortality risks due to cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases of …