Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …

In this paper we predict the pure demographic effect on medical expenditure of the German Statutory Health Insurance … Scheme. To isolate this effect, we assume that the age-specific expenditure for medical treatment as observed in 1991 remains … population increases the (average) per-capita medical expenditure by 18,6 percent. This increase and the decline of labour force …

along with expenditure information, and that the geographical location of households is fairly precise. We take advantage of …