, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and … conclusions depend also on how productivity and genes are correlated, on the complementarity of genes and efforts in the survival …

mechanism can help explain empirical findings of a negative effect of competition on quality in markets such as health care …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

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 …

The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and … developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an … per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …