experienced significantly higher all-cause mortality in middle and old ages relative to “neighbor” cohorts. In a widely cited … food) of WW I on laterlife mortality. This paper suggests that Spanish Influenza 1918-19 is the most important of several … only a small proportion died of it immediately.The net effect on later life mortality is thus assumed to be that of …

We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the … vital statistics, we document an upward kink in the age-specific yearly mortality rate of individuals in the affected … cohorts. We estimate a negative effect of college on mortality between ages 34-74, which is larger for men, but also sizable …

-through for Switzerland are based on either single equation estimation or on VAR models. However, these approaches feature some …-through in Switzerland by using a vector error correction model, which has the advantage of incorporating both short-run dynamics …

processes, cointegration is a necessary condition both for consistent estimation of the parameters of the model and … compatibility between the model and the data. Tests find little support for cointegration and, together with an out …