This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the … deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services … choose private health services than public health services from the National Health Service. For high-income individuals …

international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is … almost three times greater than its responsiveness to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care …

The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood … publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating …-efforts to avoid health losses can grossly distort the success of the ACA mandate to insure the uninsured and to improve the …

We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have … causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … many health status aspects over time, and that is linked to register data on the vital status of the individuals. The model …

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care … in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care … paid by patients who do not pay official fees. I do not find evidence that the public health care sector in either Peru or …

husband’s wages. Consistent with this but, in contrast to results for richer countries, antenatal and postnatal health …-care decline in recessions. These effects are reinforced by pro-cyclicality in state health and development expenditure. Another …