This paper first presents a time-series analysis of factors influencing aggregate health care expenditure in some OECD countries. We focus on supply-side factors (especially the diffusion of medical technologies) and first estimate a single model on six countries. The results suggest that...

We carry out microsimulations of the number of elderly disabled people by year 2040, according to various assumptions on the evolution of disability. We use data from the HID survey, a two-wave panel, which makes it possible to estimate transitions towards or out of disability. These...

This work uses the first wave of SHARE to analyze the impact of health and satisfaction at work on preferences concerning age at retirement in 10 European countries. Preferences concerning age at retirement are measured by the rate of people wishing to retire as soon as possible. We examine how...