retirement. It explores well-established relationships among economic circumstances, health, and mortality, as well as the … made by individuals, these decisions are influenced by a set of incentives, including retirement benefits and health care … effects of poverty and lower levels of economic development on health and life satisfaction. By combining micro and macro …

How much have government programs improved elderly well-being? I examine the impact of OAA on mortality between 1930 …-1955. I construct two new data sets: a database on OAA, and a database on elderly mortality. To control for the joint … determination of income and mortality, I use a simulated IV approach that relies on exogenous changes in OAA legislation. I find …

from a hedonic model of health care in which heterogenous individuals choose how much to spend on medical services that … reduce mortality risk. Their choices generate an equilibrium survival function that can be differentiated to recover their … marginal willingness to pay for mortality risk reduction. Our IV estimator uses survey data on Americans over age 66, linked to …

Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured … their intrinsic shortcomings; expenditures depend on preferences, health status, and prices, while outcomes are strongly … affected by health behavior and past illness. We suggest a new approach to measuring inequality: the use of quality …

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse … relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we … unrelated to the baseline health of the individual, and are significant predictors of retirement. We find that there is no …