This dataset supports a study analyzing the impact of the 1909 public pension introduction on elderly mortality in England and Wales. The research uses a quasi-natural experiment with difference-in-differences and event-time designs to estimate mortality decline. The analysis links the decline to factors like residential crowding and retirement from high-mortality occupations.
Use Cases
- Estimate the impact of pension introduction on county-level mortality rates using a difference-in-differences design.
- Analyze the relationship between the number of pensioners in a county and the strength of the mortality decline.
- Investigate changes in residential crowding as a potential channel for reduced mortality following pension policy.
- Study shifts in retirement patterns, particularly from occupations with high mortality rates, after the pension introduction.
- Examine the decline in deaths from both infectious and non-infectious diseases following the policy change.
Strengths
- Data is based on a quasi-natural experiment from a specific historical policy change in 1909.
- Analysis utilizes full-count individual-level census data for granular insights.
- Research findings are published and include specific analytical methods like difference-in-differences.
Limitations
- The dataset structure, including row count, column names, and file formats, is unknown.
- Geographic coverage is limited to England and Wales, not the entire UK.
- Data is historical and may not reflect modern pension or mortality dynamics.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Analysis of historical census and mortality records surrounding the 1909 UK pension policy.
- Time Range
- Period surrounding 1909.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- England and Wales