, 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 …

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 …

, 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 …

for both the public pay-as-you-go pension scheme and the public education system. Without labor mobility, each generation … a popular belief that increasing labor mobility decreases the incentives to finance the education of the subsequent …

-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young. This requires that labor is not … mobile. Furthermore, establishing public education may benefit only the generation which pays for education twice, first for …

analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …