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The return to education in terms of wealth and health

Strulik, Holger - 2016

This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education gradient can be explained by fully rational and efficient...

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Medical spending in Denmark

Christensen, Bent Jesper; Gørtz, Mette; … - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 37 (2016) 3/4, pp. 461-497

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Do red herrings swim in circles? : controlling for the endogeneity of time to death

Felder, Stefan; Werblow, Andreas; Zweifel, Peter - In: Journal of health economics 29 (2010) 2, pp. 205-212

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An analysis of the impact oof age and proximity of death on health care costs in Ireland

Layte, Richard (contributor) - 2007

Research has shown that older individuals are far more likely to avail of health care and there is concern in a number of countries that the trend toward population ageing may mean that health care expenditures increase to unsustainable levels. However, there is a growing body of evidence that...

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The Era of Longevity : Transformation of Aging, Health and Wealth

Chen, Dongsheng - 2023

Chapter 1. Longevity Era Centennial Life -- Chapter 2. Healthy Era, Healthier Longevity -- Chapter 3. Wealth era rich life -- Chapter 4. Pioneer of the age of longevity - Japan -- Chapter 5. longevity economy -- Chapter 6. The Road to Corporate Innovation for the Age of Longevity (6 and 7...

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Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation

Shoven, John B. - 2008

remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

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The 'Red Herring' after 20 Years : Ageing and Health Care Expenditures

Breyer, Friedrich - 2019

that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …

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The "red herring" after 20 years : ageing and health care expenditures

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - In: The European journal of health economics 22 (2021) 5, pp. 661-667

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Time-inconsistent health behavior and its impact on aging and longevity

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - In: Journal of health economics 76 (2021), pp. 1-23

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"More than one red herring"? : heterogeneous effects of ageing on healthcare utilisation

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2020

We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing (...

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