examine spillover effects of a rise on LTC expenditure on health care expenditures (HCE) and the economy (GDP). Our estimates …We first study the dynamic drivers of expenditure on long-term care (LTC) programs, and more specifically, the effects … draw from a panel of more than a decade worth of expenditure data from a sample of OECD countries. We use a panel Vector …

expectancy uses a Bayesian Model Ensemble approach to stochastic mortality modelling to generate forecasts of intergenerationally …

in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between …

We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 … used classification, workers from the first (low status) group display more health deficits at any age and accumulate …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To … weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

-based health insurance policies in the United States as natural experiments. I first exploit the discrete change in insurance … with statistically significant deterioration in attitudes towards the necessity of health insurance among young adults who … are affected by this policy the most. Next, I show that gaining health insurance at 65 due to the onset of Medicare does …

We decompose changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality … rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is … inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in …