Disentangling age, period, and cohort effects in explaining health trends is crucial to assess future prevalences of … health disorders. The identification problem -- age, period, and cohort effects are perfectly linearly related -- is tackled … by modeling cohort and period effects using lifetime macro-indicators. This approach -- innovative in analyses on health …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …