Survival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses

Redelmeier, Donald A.; Singh, Sheldon M.

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-134-10-200105150-00009

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“…Indeed, Sylvestre et al (2006) recalculate Redelmeier and Singh's (2001a) result on Oscar winners, allowing for such potential biases, and reach the finding that their 3.6 year estimate becomes closer to one year, and not significantly different from zero at the 95% confidence level.…”

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“…The comparable analysis of Oscar winners and nominees by Redelmeier and Singh (2001a) reported a 24-25% decline in relative mortality. It should be emphasized that here we allow for time co-varying variables.…”

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“…Redelmeier and Singh (2001a) consider the longevity of Oscar winning actors and actresses relative to those who had been nominated for an award but had never won. Winning an Oscar, it is reasoned, should have a positive effect on feelings of perceived social standingparticularly because as many Americans watch the Oscar ceremony as vote in presidential elections ).…”

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Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

Rablen

Oswald

2008

Journal of Health Economics

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It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which extra status could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control group of comparable individuals received none. This paper attempts to formulate a test in that spirit. It collects 19th-century birth data on science Nobel Prize winners. Correcting for potential biases, we estimate that winning the Prize, compared to merely being nominated, is associated with between 1 and 2 years of extra longevity.JEL classification: I12

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Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

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Oswald

2008

Journal of Health Economics

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“…Recurrent experience of social recognition was shown to enhance self-esteem and associated positive emotions processed by the brain reward system (Henry 1991;Schultz et al 1997). Socioemotional reward acts as a protective resource against the organism's susceptibility to stressful life circumstances and may even affect longevity (Redelmeier and Singh 2001). Conversely, being exposed to non-reciprocal social exchange in terms of high efforts spent and low (or no) rewards received in turn is associated with sustained negative emotions and bodily stress reactions.…”

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Social productivity and well-being of older people: baseline results from the SHARE study

Wahrendorf

Knesebeck²,

Siegrist

2006

Eur J Ageing

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Social and productive activities have been associated with more favorable well-being and health outcomes in older populations. There is limited consensus on what aspects account for the observed effect and what pathways may underlie their associations. Using data from the 2004 'Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe' (SHARE), based on some 22,000 participants aged 50 and older from ten European countries, this study explores types and quality of productive activities (voluntary work, care for a person, informal help) and its association with two indicators of well-being (depressive symptoms, quality of life). Quality of social productivity is analyzed in the frame of a sociological model based on the notion of exchange reciprocity. Results of multivariate linear regression analysis, adjusted for important confounders, confirm an association of productive activity with well-being. However, this association varies according to experienced quality of exchange: Experienced reciprocity between efforts spent and rewards received is associated with positive well-being (with the exception of caring), while non-reciprocal exchange (high effort and low reward) is associated with negative well-being in all activities. Findings underline the need to improve quality of exchange in socially productive activities as a means of motivating older people to participate in societal life.

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“…Specifically, cross-sectional correlations between socio-economic status (SES) and health are well established (Marmot, 2003). Evidence from quasi-8 experiments such as Rablen and Oswald (2008) and Redelmeier and Singh (2001) concludes that Nobel Prize and Academy Award are associated with extended longevity. As with the Whitehall study, such evidence has partial external validity given the selected samples (civil servants) the evidence relies on.…”

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The ‘healthy worker effect’: Do healthy people climb the occupational ladder?

Costa‐Font

Ljunge

2018

Economics & Human Biology

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of health inequalities shaped by occupational status. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in explaining occupational standing. This paper documents evidence of non-negligible returns to occupation status on health (which we refer as 'healthy worker effect'). Terms of use: Documents inWe use a unique empirical strategy that addressed reverse causality, namely an instrumental variable strategy using the variation in average health in the migrant's country of origin, a health measure plausibly not determined by the migrant's occupational status. Our findings suggest that health status exerts significant effects on occupational status in several dimensions; having a supervising role, worker autonomy, and worker influence. The effect size of health is larger than that of an upper secondary education.JEL-Codes: J500, I180.

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Survival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses

Abstract: The association of high status with increased longevity that prevails in the public also extends to celebrities, contributes to a large survival advantage, and is partially explained by factors related to success.

Cited by 168 publications

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Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

Mortality and immortality: The Nobel Prize as an experiment into the effect of status upon longevity

Social productivity and well-being of older people: baseline results from the SHARE study

The ‘healthy worker effect’: Do healthy people climb the occupational ladder?

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