Arbeitspapier
Can pensions save lives? Evidence from the introduction of old-age assistance in the UK
I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a quasi-natural experiment. Exploiting the newly created pension eligibility age through a difference-in-difference as well as an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality in England and Wales declined after the pension was introduced. The estimated mortality decline is economically relevant, more pronounced in counties with a higher share of pensioners and is driven by fewer deaths from infectious as well as non-infectious diseases. An analysis of full-count individual-level census data points to a reduction in residential crowding and retirement, especially from occupations associated with high mortality rates, as likely channels.
- ISBN
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978-3-96973-161-1
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 995
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Social Security and Public Pensions
Health Behavior
Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Retirement; Retirement Policies
- Thema
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Old-age assistance
mortality
retirement
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Jäger, Philipp
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
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Essen
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2023
- DOI
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doi:10.4419/96973161
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Jäger, Philipp
- RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Entstanden
- 2023
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