between 12% and 17%. However, other health care expenditures would only increase slightly, and the mortality rate would … since its creation in 1965 -- will improve the health of elderly Americans, and how much it will cost. We model how … insurance affects medical care utilization, and subsequently, health outcomes over time in a dynamic model with correlated …

This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and … and had higher older age mortality rates …

-age mortality on the time use and health outcomes of older adults, with a focus on long-run impacts and gender dimensions. Prime …. Most health indicators are not worse for older adults when a prime-age household member died, although more distant adult … population bears the majority of the mortality burden. These missing prime-age adults have implications for the socioeconomic …

medical progress: decreased mortality risk, milder and slower development over time, making the time with disease (and health …The objective is to review the evidence on (a) ageing and health and (b) the demand for health- and social services … among the elderly. Issues are: does health status of the elderly improve over time, and how do the trends in health status …

Considering mortality and health status, we question the fact that the reforms may have gone too far in increasing the …: one based on the gap in employment rates across time for given mortality rates; the other using the work/health … activating any estimated additional work capacity should take into account, when possible, the heterogeneity of health conditions …

to reduce incentives to retire early. However, it is unknown to what extent older individuals have the health capacity to … sustain the longer working lives that delayed pension benefits may encourage. We estimate the health capacity to work longer … in Denmark by comparing how much older individuals work today with how much those with similar mortality rates worked in …

men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at …Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older … older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially …

We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health … behaviors of older adults, using data from eight waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Our main finding is that … bequests do not have substantial effects on health, although some improvements in quality-of-life are possible. This absence …