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Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?

Preston, Samuel H.; Ho, Jessica Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Life expectancy in the United States fares poorly in international comparisons, primarily because of high mortality rates above age 50. Its low ranking is often blamed on a poor performance by the health care system rather than on behavioral or social factors. This paper presents evidence on the...

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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we find prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length. Exposure to Ramadan in the first month of gestation is...

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Impact of First Occupation on Health at Older Ages

Falba, Tracy Ann; Sindelar, Jody L.; Fletcher, Jason; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Occupation is discussed as a social determinant of health. Occupation has received little attention in this light in the economics literature. We examine occupation in a life-course framework and use measures of first-occupation, initial health, and mother's education. We contend that first...

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The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

Cawley, John; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; Moran, John R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper tests whether income affects the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise identical retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. We exploit this natural...

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Prescription Drug Insurance and Its Effect on Utilization and Health of the Elderly

Kaestner, Robert; Khan, Nasreen; Lin, Swu Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The Medicare Modernization Act was recently established, to provide limited drug coverage to the elderly. However, there is limited evidence on how drug coverage might affect health. The goal of this paper is to obtain "causal effects" of prescription drug coverage on drug use, use of other...

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Changes in the Physiology of Aging during the Twentieth Century

Fogel, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

One way to demonstrate how remarkable changes in the process of aging have been is to compare health over the life cycles of 3 cohorts. For the first cohort, born between 1835 and 1845 (the Civil War cohort), life was short and disabilities were common even at young ages. Other factors...

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The Predictive Validity of Subjective Probabilities of Survival

Hurd, Michael D.; McGarry, Kathleen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Retirement Study has shown that reported probabilities aggregate closely to life table values and covary appropriately with known …

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Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly

Kaestner, Robert; Khan, Nasreen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We examine the effect of gaining prescription drug insurance as a result of Medicare Part D on use of prescription drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the heightened importance of prescription drugs for those...

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Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

Mitchell, Olivia; Chai, Jingjing; Horneff, Wolfram; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

consumer who can select her hours of work and also her retirement age. Using a realistically-calibrated model with stochastic … work effort by the young; and markedly enhances lifetime welfare. Also, introducing annuities leads to earlier retirement … as well as sensible retirement age patterns. …

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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren

Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeer, Stephanie J.C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …

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