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life expectancy related to observable factors such as income, gender, and health have large effects on savings, and that …
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We find that veterans of the Union Army who faced greater wartime stress (as measured by higher battlefield mortality … rates) experienced higher mortality rates at older ages, but that men who were from more cohesive companies were … statistically significantly less likely to be affected by wartime stress. Our results hold for overall mortality, mortality from …
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Older people experience high rates of depression and suicide, yet they make a positive net contribution to the economy through activities such as employment, volunteering, and looking after grandchildren. The wellbeing of older people is therefore important not only on moral but also economic...
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Longevity risk, which is typically portrayed as the problem of people outliving their assets, can be viewed as both an aggregate and an individual-level issue. A related issue is that of ‘active life,' an individual-level phenomenon, or ‘active life expectancy' (ALE), an aggregate...
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significant covariate for health and mortality of older adults, independent of baseline height …-life health among older adults aged over 50 from the Indonesian Family Life Survey. We first document the extent of height …
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on older age mortality depended upon the cause of death that was being investigated but all of these infections reduced … cause-specific longevity. Men who grew up in a large city faced an elevated mortality risk from all causes of death … controlling for later residence. The immediate effect of reduced infectious disease rates and reduced mortality from acute disease …
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As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health …, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting communities, and have a high incidence of health care utilization. Moreover …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …
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