This dataset supports a study on the impact of the 1909 public pension introduction in the UK on elderly mortality in England and Wales. The analysis uses difference-in-differences and event-time designs, finding a decline in mortality linked to pensioner density and disease types.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between county-level pensioner density and mortality rates from infectious diseases.
- Study the impact of pension introduction on residential crowding using individual-level census data.
- Examine changes in retirement patterns from high-mortality occupations following the pension policy change.
- Conduct a difference-in-differences analysis on elderly mortality before and after the 1909 policy intervention.
Strengths
- Data is based on a quasi-natural experiment from a major 1909 policy change in the UK.
- Analysis utilizes full-count individual-level census data for granularity.
- Study findings are linked to specific channels like residential crowding and occupational retirement.
Limitations
- The dataset's specific structure, including column names and row count, is unknown.
- Data is historical and may not reflect modern contexts or demographics.
- Geographic coverage is limited to England and Wales.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Analysis of archival data, including census records, for a quasi-natural experiment.
- Time Range
- Centered around the 1909 pension introduction.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- England and Wales