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We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...
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mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … effect on mortality but that state and regional economic conditions are stronger predictors. I also leverage county …
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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 …
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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 …
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with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …
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explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …
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We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher … increased mortality among male early retirees. …
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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differences. Arguably, this shortcoming is rooted in the lack of an appropriate MIMIC model which considers cointegration among … variables. This paper develops a MIMIC model which estimates the cointegration equilibrium relationship and the error correction …
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This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...
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