primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus … pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with … in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case … benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths …

spring of 2020. This paper examines the impact that these actions had on emissions and expected health effects through … use, we estimate the county-level expected improvements in air quality, and therefore expected declines in mortality …

adoption of a SIPO, a result robust to controls for county-level heterogeneity in outbreak timing, coronavirus testing, and …, suggesting that the later statewide shelter-in-place mandate yielded relatively few health benefits …

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 …

between 12% and 17%. However, other health care expenditures would only increase slightly, and the mortality rate would … since its creation in 1965 -- will improve the health of elderly Americans, and how much it will cost. We model how … insurance affects medical care utilization, and subsequently, health outcomes over time in a dynamic model with correlated …

consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the substantial fluctuations in … the rate of increase in longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and … models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual …

Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured … their intrinsic shortcomings; expenditures depend on preferences, health status, and prices, while outcomes are strongly … affected by health behavior and past illness. We suggest a new approach to measuring inequality: the use of quality …