Quantifying the mortality impact of the 1935 old-age assistance

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dc.contributor.authorGalofré-Vilà, Gregori
dc.contributor.authorMcKee, Martin
dc.contributor.authorStuckler, David
dc.contributor.departmentEconomíaes_ES
dc.contributor.departmentEkonomiaeu
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-03T12:20:27Z
dc.date.available2022-08-03T12:20:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2022-08-03T11:24:49Z
dc.description.abstractIn 1935, the United States introduced the old-age assistance (OAA) program, a means-tested program to help the elderly poor. The OAA improved retirement conditions and aimed to enable older persons to live independently. We use the transition from early elderly plans to OAA and the large differences in payments and eligibility across states to show that OAA reduced mortality by between 30 and 39 percent among those older than 65 years. This finding, based on an event study design, is robust to a range of specifications, a range of fixed effects, placebo tests, and a border-pair policy discontinuity design using county-level data. The largest mortality reductions came from drops in communicable and infectious diseases, such as influenza and nephritis, and mostly affected white citizens.en
dc.description.sponsorshipDS is funded by a Wellcome Trust and European Research Council Investigator Award (ERC HRES 313590).en
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dc.identifier.citationGalofré-Vilà, G.; McKee, M.; Stuckler, D.. (2022). Quantifying the mortality impact of the 1935 old-age assistance. European Review of Economic History. 26, (1), pp. 62-77en
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/ereh/heab001
dc.identifier.issn1361-4916
dc.identifier.urihttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/43689
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherOxforden
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Review Of Economic History, 2022, 26 (1), pp. 62-77en
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/European Commission/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/313590/
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heab001
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Licenseen
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectOld-age assistance (OAA)en
dc.subjectElderly pooren
dc.subjectMortalityen
dc.titleQuantifying the mortality impact of the 1935 old-age assistanceen
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