approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize … implications for health inequality. Calibrating our model to Germany, we find that currently the public health and pension system … is approximately optimal. Future progress in medical technology calls for a potentially drastic increase in health …

approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …

characteristics in 26 European countries (using EU-SILC data) and the US (using CPS data) and find a robust tendency in all countries …