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 …

This paper examines the relationship between extreme socioeconomic disadvantage and poor health by providing the first … detailed and accurate picture of mortality patterns among people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. Our analyses center on … comparison groups, are linked to Social Security Administration data on all-cause mortality from 2010-2022 to estimate the …

from a hedonic model of health care in which heterogenous individuals choose how much to spend on medical services that … reduce mortality risk. Their choices generate an equilibrium survival function that can be differentiated to recover their … marginal willingness to pay for mortality risk reduction. Our IV estimator uses survey data on Americans over age 66, linked to …

We develop an economic framework for valuing improvements to health and life expectancy, based on individuals …' willingness to pay. We then apply the framework to past and prospective reductions in mortality risks, both overall and for … about half of average annual GDP over the period. Reduced mortality from heart disease alone has increased the value of life …

Although health is conventionally believed to deteriorate during macroeconomic downturns, the empirical evidence …. Recent research that better controls for many sources of omitted variables bias instead suggests that mortality decreases and … physical health improves when the economy temporarily weakens. This partially reflects reductions in external sources of death …

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 …

caused by worsening health in old age. Our model explains the long-run decline in the age of retirement as an income level … effect. We show that improvements in health and longevity tend to increase the desired retirement age, though less than …