. This gene-environment interaction generates a vicious cycle in which poor individuals inherit not only susceptibility to …

economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …

economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

, in order to asses how much of the marriage gap can be explained by income pooling and public-goods sharing as well as … making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …

health behavior. For that purpose we set up a physiologically founded model of health deficit accumulation and calibrate it … using recent insights from gerontology. From fitting life cycle health expenditure and life expectancy we obtain estimates … offers also an economic explanation for why the gender gap declines with rising income. …

In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit …