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Abstract
The Human Mortality Database (HMD) contains original calculations of death rates and life tables for national populations (countries or areas), as well as the input data used in constructing those tables. The input data consist of death counts from vital statistics, plus census counts, birth counts, and population estimates from various sources.
Research Area
Household Finance
Macro Finance
Financial Institutions
Macro Finance
Financial Institutions
Keywords
social security, idiosyncratic risk, aggregate risk, welfare, financial stability, insurance, interest rate risk, stress test, secular stagnation, demographic change, overlapping generations, natural rate, equity premium, growth, human capital, subjective survival beliefs, probability weighting function, confirmatory bias, cognition, optimism, pessimism, population aging, pension reform, life-cycle behavior, labor supply, retirement age
JEL Classification
C68, E27, E62, G12, H55, G20, G22, G23, E17, D83, D91, I10, J11, J26
Working Paper References
Idiosyncratic Risk, Aggregate Risk, and the Welfare Effects of Social Security
A Stochastic Forward-Looking Model to Assess the Profitability and Solvency of European Insurers
Secular Stagnation? Growth, Asset Returns and Welfare in the Next Decades: First Results
Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs
Endogenous Retirement Behavior of Heterogeneous Households Under Pension Reforms
A Stochastic Forward-Looking Model to Assess the Profitability and Solvency of European Insurers
Secular Stagnation? Growth, Asset Returns and Welfare in the Next Decades: First Results
Cognition, Optimism and the Formation of Age-Dependent Survival Beliefs
Endogenous Retirement Behavior of Heterogeneous Households Under Pension Reforms
Topic
Stability and Regulation
Investor Behaviour
Monetary Policy
Investor Behaviour
Monetary Policy
Publication Type
Research Data
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