Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … restricted to very particular causes of death, but is mostly driven by adult and old age mortality. We calculate that welfare … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …

particular regularity, akin to the compensation effect of mortality. Health deficits converge for men and women and across American …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 …

mortality risk reductions. We find similar Value of Statistical Life estimates across the two studies, ranging from USD 930 …: individuals aged over 70 years hold WTP values approximately one-third lower than other respondents. Respondent health status has … affected population's age for health status. …

are about one-third lower than those of other respondents. This effect is significant in Canada but not in the US. Health … used in environmental policy analyses should be adjusted for the age or health status of people whose lives are saved by …

the English. In contrast, age specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries with an even higher risk among the … English after age 65. Our second aim explains large financial gradients in mortality in the two countries. Among 55-64 year … olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …