(1959-1961) on the health of older adults. We also explored potential mechanisms underlying these effects. The complex … circumstances on health in old age. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effects of the Great Chinese Famine … interplay between early life circumstances, multiple health-related sectors, and healthy aging necessitates a comprehensive life …

(1959-1961) on the health of older adults. We also explored potential mechanisms underlying these effects. The complex … circumstances on health in old age. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effects of the Great Chinese Famine … interplay between early life circumstances, multiple health-related sectors, and healthy aging necessitates a comprehensive life …

We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …

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 …

integrates health in the utility function and utilizes recent estimates on the effects of health on the marginal utility of …

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

making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …

model with endogenous aging and longevity. Individuals can slow down aging and postpone death by health investments and by … smoke less and invest more in their health. Consequently, they accumulate health deficits faster and die earlier than … originally planned. This fundamental health consequence of time-inconsistency has not been addressed in the literature so far …