medical progress: decreased mortality risk, milder and slower development over time, making the time with disease (and health …The objective is to review the evidence on (a) ageing and health and (b) the demand for health- and social services … among the elderly. Issues are: does health status of the elderly improve over time, and how do the trends in health status …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to higher unemployment rates in the pre-retirement years on subsequent … mortality. Although past research has found that recessions reduce contemporaneous mortality, these short-term effects may … also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when …

We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico … in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995-96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and the elderly … increase or decline less rapidly in crisis years as compared with non-crisis years. In late 1995-96 crisis, mortality rates …

birth cohorts observed from 1975 to 1995. We assume that health status is determined by social status, defined as income … relative to the mean income of a reference group. When reference groups are not observed, health is a function of income whose … cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There …

place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places … affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … model of smoking and medical care use that highlights two forms of selection: selective mortality and non-random cessation … smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …