It is widely believed that health plays a major role in retirement decisions. The most important problem in including … health in retirement models is the lack of availability of a good measure of health at the individual level in existing data … sets. This problem is exacerbated when a model spanning multiple countries is desired, because self-reports on health may …

% of the rise in health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring …The authors use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and … retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. They …

In this paper, the author assesses the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread … results show that the smoke haze from these fires had a deleterious effect on population health in Malaysia. …

, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to …

What are the health impacts of retirement? As talk of raising retirement ages in pensions and social security schemes …. The authors use the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset to address this question in a … multicountry setting. Statutory retirement ages clearly induce retirement, but are not related to an individual's health. The …

well-described by four domains: job or daily activities, social contacts and family, health, and income. Among the four … and health. Income has the lowest impact. As in other work, they find that American response styles differ from the Dutch … Dutch, who are more inclined to stay in the middle of the scale. Although for both Americans and the Dutch, income is the …

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …

more often report that they have a work limiting health problem than respondents in the US. The difference remains when … controlling for demographic characteristics and observed onsets of health problems. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of … response scales for different health domains is compared with a model that allows for domain specific response scales. Results …