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. …

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to "health production functions." The …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …

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 …

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 …