: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

this paper we investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the annual time …-series behavior of U.S. longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and output … annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual data are …

costs, and diminishing health such as increasing in obesity (and associated physical health problems) as well behavioral … changing health, we find that increasing mental/emotional/physical health problems accounts for a significant portion of … increased local government spending growth, particularly in human services such as education that require behavioral management …

, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with …This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …

Für bestimmte Berufsgruppen untersuchen wir Gesundheit und Altern vor und nach der Pensionierung. Wir verwenden fünf … Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere … Männer und Frauen aus 10 europäischen Ländern. Berufsgruppen werden nach niedriger vs. hoher Bildung, blauer vs. weißer …

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and … surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health … conceptualization of ageing as an accumulation of health deficits. The paper also discusses the role of medical progress for longevity …

Using high-quality Finnish register data and a regression discontinuity approach, we study the health effects of …