older persons will increase the unemployment of youth. The fifth phase on "Historical Trends in Mortality and Health …, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms" was intended to set the stage for this current phase. This sixth … key question this volume seeks to address is: given health status, to what extent are differences in labor force …

month and that the probability of health care utilization rises during the first year of the episode, with more use in the …

We explore alternative measures of unobserved health status in order to identify effects of mental and physical … capacity for work on older men's retirement. Traditional self-ratings of poor health are tested against more objectively … measured instruments. Using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find that health problems influence retirement plans more …

health insurance status. …This paper analyzes the role that health status plays in household portfolio decisions using data from the Health and … Retirement Study. The results indicate that health is a significant predictor of both the probability of owning different types …

health insurance market can vary with a person?s health status. Community rating and guaranteed issues laws were passed with … hopes of increasing access to affordable insurance for people with high-risk health conditions, but there are concerns that … relationship between expected medical expenses, individual insurance premiums, and the likelihood of obtaining individual insurance …

We consider how age-health profiles differ by demographic characteristics such as education, race, and ethnicity. A key … feature of the analysis is the joint estimation of health and mortality to correct for the effect of mortality selection on … observed age-health profiles. The model also allows for heterogeneity in individual health at a point in time and the …

estimate a large utility-derived demand system over this joint product-nutrient space that allows us to calculate price and …, the costs of these taxes in terms of consumer utility are not higher. A sugar tax in particular is a powerful tool to …

formal analysis of disability insurance programs, with this key question: Given health status, to what extent are the … participation are related to changes in health. Finally we consider the effect on disability insurance participation of "natural … experiments" in which the disability insurance reforms were not prompted by changes in health status or by changes in the …