The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over the next 80 years for Japan, the United States, other industrial countries, and the developing regions of the world using a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium...

By pooling the data from the three waves (1998, 2000, and 2002) of the Chinese Longitudinal Health and Longevity Survey, this study examines the association of sociodemographic factors with the onset and recovery of ADL disability including changes in functional status before dying. The results...

Like most developed countries, Belgium is faced with a rate of growth in health spending which exceeds not only the increase in GDP but also exceeds the rate of growth of most other public outlays, be it direct social spending or not. Analysis of the growth in public spending on health over the...