medical progress: decreased mortality risk, milder and slower development over time, making the time with disease (and health …The objective is to review the evidence on (a) ageing and health and (b) the demand for health- and social services … among the elderly. Issues are: does health status of the elderly improve over time, and how do the trends in health status …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to higher unemployment rates in the pre-retirement years on subsequent … mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

Cigarette smoking leads to large healthcare and morbidity costs, and mortality losses, and smoking cessation plays a … key role in reducing health risk and economic costs. While medical evidence suggests that some smokers are more likely to … model in which individuals make smoking, health investment and consumption-savings decisions. Depending on an individual …

? They have not. We ask when and why the female advantage emerged. We show that reductions in maternal mortality and … played a role. The primary reason is that those who survive most infectious diseases carry a health burden that affects …

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether … education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of … educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The …

manufacturing productivity growth. Other research has suggested that, over the long run, growth in the U.S. economy's 'health output …' has been at least as large as the growth in non-health goods and services. One important input in the production of health …, we estimate health production functions, in which the dependent variables are various indicators of post-treatment health …

rankings are important determinants of mortality and the evolution of the health indicator in the survey. For men aged 65 … between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth …