household income, socio-demographic factors, and private health insurance factors in both Japan and the USA. Using these two … rises, households have a positive effect on purchasing health insurance as a normal good. Another similarity between the two … pure health issuance characteristics, an increase in premium of health insurance policies cause individuals to substitute …

maximize underlying health or longevity. Rather, they choose labor supply and medicine in light of potential side effects in an … effort to jointly manage two forms of human capital: their health and their work experience. I use the framework to examine … objective health measures along with reports of physical ailments. This allows me to model each HIV drug along two dimensions of …

health capital index. …

latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' heterogeneous health when they grow older. This paper … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … first quantifies the health gradient across and within each of the European countries across sociodemographic groups (i …

sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …

adverse effects on the economy and the health sector. More specifically, over the 2008-2015 period, GDP was reduced by 29 ….5 percent, wages were reduced by 35-45 percent, private consumption dropped by 30 percent and health expenditure declined by 41 … public expenditures, the fight against corruption and the underground economy, the control of health expenditures, and the …