this paper we investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the annual time …-series behavior of U.S. longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and output … annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual data are …

This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in … the United States over the period 1960-2000. To isolate exogenous variation in health over time, the analysis exploits the … sharp decline in cardiovascular disease mortality across states that originated from medical advances in the treatment and …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population …, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany …

-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

Kalman-filtering-based maximum-likelihood estimation method. Following the method, we estimate monthly and quarterly VAR(2 … GDP forecasts. The Kalman filter is used to compute the likelihood in estimation and to produce forecasts. Generally, the …

In this paper we present two new composite leading indicators of economicactivity in Germany estimated using a dynamic …