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Combining remaining life expectancy and time to death as a measure of old-age dependency related to health care needs

Spijker, Jeroen J. A. - In: International journal of health economics and management 23 (2023) 2, pp. 173-187

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Three essays on heterogeneity in macroeconomics

Edwards, Ryan D. - 2002

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Why do the elderly save? : the role of medical expenses

De Nardi, Mariacristina; French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey - 2009

This paper constructs a rich model of saving for retired single people. Our framework allows for bequest motives and heterogeneity in medical expenses and life expectancies. We estimate the model using AHEAD data and the method of simulated moments. The data show that out-of-pocket medical...

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Why do the elderly save? : the role of medical expenses

De Nardi, Mariacristina; French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey - In: Journal of political economy 118 (2010) 1, pp. 39-75

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Why do the elderly save? : The role of medical expenses

De Nardi, Mariacristina; French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864139

Inequalities in disability-free and disabling multimorbid life expectancy in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States

Lam, Anastasia; Keenan, Katherine; Cézard, Geneviève; … - 2023

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The Longevity of Older Wives and Their Husbands : Comparing Actual Couples with Synthetic Couples

Compton, Janice; Pollak, Robert A.; Sanders, Seth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we construct two measures of the longevity of older wives … utilizes a 4 x 4 "longevity matrix" in which the bins correspond to the decades in which the spouses died. For example, an … the couples in our working sample. We compare the longevity estimates based on actual couples from the NHIS with estimates …

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Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly U.S. Population

Cutler, David M. - 2013

The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical spending increases than if life extension were...

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Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S. Elderly

Fuchs, Victor R. - 2001

This paper examines 313 U.S. areas for differences in medical care utilization and mortality of whites ages 65-84 in 1990. The variables included in the analysis are education, real income, cigarette sales, obesity, air pollution, percent black, and dummy variables for seven regions and five...

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Quantifying the mortality impact of the 1935 old-age assistance

Galofré-Vilà, Gregori; McKee, Martin; Stuckler, David - In: European review of economic history : EREH 26 (2022) 1, pp. 62-77

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