Add to ORKGIt has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Yet causality remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control group received neither. This paper attempts to formulate a test in that spirit. It collects 19th-century birth data on science Nobel Prize winners and nominees. Correcting for potential biases, we estimate that winning the Prize is associated with between 1 and 2 years of extra longevity. JEL classification: I1
We built a unique dataset of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi’s epoch and 1879, Einstein...
We build a new sample of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi’s epoch and Einstein’s cohort,...
The concept of the force of natural selection was developed to explain the evolution of ageing. Afte...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
Using data for 387 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, or physiology/medicine from 1901 to 20...
It is widely believed that a rise in social status extends longevity. A handful number of studies ex...
We provide evidence for the causal impact of social status on longevity by exploiting a natural expe...
tors and actresses lived almost 4 years longer than their less suc-cessful peers. However, the stati...
Longevity is not a matter of genes. This is the message that appeared last year in all the newspaper...
An international committee of demographers has created a carefully documented list of worldwide livi...
We build a new sample of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi's epoch and Einstein's cohort,...
We built a unique dataset of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi’s epoch and 1879, Einstein...
We build a new sample of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi’s epoch and Einstein’s cohort,...
The concept of the force of natural selection was developed to explain the evolution of ageing. Afte...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinar...
Using data for 387 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, or physiology/medicine from 1901 to 20...
It is widely believed that a rise in social status extends longevity. A handful number of studies ex...
We provide evidence for the causal impact of social status on longevity by exploiting a natural expe...
tors and actresses lived almost 4 years longer than their less suc-cessful peers. However, the stati...
Longevity is not a matter of genes. This is the message that appeared last year in all the newspaper...
An international committee of demographers has created a carefully documented list of worldwide livi...
We build a new sample of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi's epoch and Einstein's cohort,...
We built a unique dataset of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi’s epoch and 1879, Einstein...
We build a new sample of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi’s epoch and Einstein’s cohort,...
The concept of the force of natural selection was developed to explain the evolution of ageing. Afte...