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

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

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

We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …

elderly health outcomes remains an open issue. In this study, we analyze the impact of telecare on the mortality rate of … show that telecare services significantly reduced the mortality rate of the elderly aged 65 and over by 1.7 individuals per … 1,000 inhabitants. This effect was sizeable, since it was a 4% decrease in the elderly mortality rate relatively to the …