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This paper examines public opinion surrounding health insurance and retirement. The data come from the EBRI/MGA 2012 … expenses are a key component of spending in retirement. In 2009, health care accounted for 18 percent of expenses for people 85 … of health insurance may thus affect retirement decisions. More than one-half of Americans (54 percent) reported that …
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In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …
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socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …
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highest rates of many health conditions for which marijuana may be an effective treatment. We use the Health and Retirement …
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Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients, payers, and providers. We conceptualize and empirically estimate the prevalence and cost of prolonged stays among elderly hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and...
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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …
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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 …
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disadvantaged by their age (Walker, 1999).Promoting early retirement is generally not encouraged. Companies now have to encourage … career trajectories, and it does not damage their health. It has been found by studies that health is significantly related … to retirement timing (both planned and unplanned) (Goyer, 2013, Adams et al., 2014), influences work performance (Merrill …
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Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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COVID-19 and the adoption of technologies in various sectors of the economy, ranging from health care facilities to …
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