aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for …

-term care (LTC) insurance in Germany in 1995 to examine whether health insurance expansions can stimulate local economies. We …

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

Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the …

socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … distributions is ignored. -- Income ; health ; global distribution ; inequality ; poverty …

Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network …. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer … diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an individual's partner. We rely on data from a longitudinal sample of …