consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the substantial fluctuations in … the rate of increase in longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and … models using annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual …

-- Health and health care -- Dimensons of health in the elderly population / David M. Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum ; comment … of the causal pathways from socioeconomic status to health / Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim … Winter ; comment, Robert J. Willis -- Childhood health and differences in late-life health outcomes between England and the …

Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic … health outcomes. Our findings suggest that subjecting integrated providers to higher-powered reimbursement incentives, i … health services (and other services subject to agency problems) to consider the organizational form of their suppliers when …

In this survey of recent research in health economics, I concentrate on studies that have appeared since 1971 or are in … are covered: (1) demand for adults' health and medical care; (2) effects of health on labor supply and wage rates; (3 …) demand for children's health and medical care and (4) selected topics pertaining to the supply side of the medical care …

We develop an economic framework for valuing improvements to health and life expectancy, based on individuals … by about $1.5 trillion per year since 1970. The potential gains from future innovations in health care are also extremely …

smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current …

This paper investigates to what extent and through which channels that health and educational attainment are … interdependent. A dynamic model of schooling, work, health expenditure, and savings is developed. The structural framework explicitly … models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the …

key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that the benefits of … regulation to provide benefits through several different channels, including improved health or productivity. The model shows … that when the benefits of reduced pollution come in the form of improved health or productivity, the benefits do affect …

finding, arguing that the health benefits from reduced pollution will also interact with pre-existing taxes, possibly causing … for health effects by representing environmental quality and leisure as substitutes in utility. The present paper employs … considers health effects. It shows that interactions with health effects from pollution actually will tend to reduce the optimal …

reduced medical care than have individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health …