waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …

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 …

Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European …We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the … spring and summer (compared to autumn). At given age, they have developed about 3.5 percent more health deficits. The bulk of …

Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that for each year of later birth, health deficits decline by on … show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of … of human aging. For example, the level of health deficits experienced at age 65 by individuals born 1920 is predicted to …

decide on optimal consumption during life, the age of retirement, and (via health investments) the timing of their death …We develop a life cycle model featuring an optimal retirement decision in the presence of physiological aging. In …. Accordingly, "years in retirement" is fully endogenously determined. Using the model we can account for the evolution of age of …