The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … to account for selection and reverse causality. Distinguishing between layoffs and business closures, we find no evidence …

technological change along with the increase in the generosity of health insurance may explain independently 53% of the rise in … health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period …We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to …

rationality and health insurance externalities. We also calculate the long term financial consequences of current US and European … economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …

rationality and health insurance externalities. We also calculate the long term financial consequences of current US and European … economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …

information or rationality and health insurance externalities. They also calculate the long term financial consequences of current … efficiency considerations, which are organized around three categories of market failures: productive inefficiencies, lack of …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …