methods to provide both central estimates and bounds on the effect of health insurance on health and mortality among the near … average effect of uninsurance on mortality and health is plausible, some selection effects that might explain our full results …We use the best available longitudinal dataset, the Health and Retirement Survey, and a battery of causal inference …

Using data on elderly individuals and couples, we estimate a collective model of household consumption of a variety of … health status. We identify the extent to which shared consumption of some goods by elderly married couples reduces their … costs of living relative to living alone. We also identify the fraction of household resources consumed by wives versus …

Using data on older individuals and couples, we estimate a collective model of household consumption of a variety of … health status. We identify the extent to which shared consumption of goods by older married couples reduces the costs of … living together relative to living alone. We also identify the fraction of household resources consumed by wives versus …

distance in housing tenure transitions of older households. This study is the first to investigate the interplay between health … status of older households, moves of their children, and a household's decision to make housing tenure transitions. In doing … so, we rely on longitudinal household data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) with residential location …