We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British … Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a natural cardinalization of health utility .Our method is a refinement … of the method introduced by Cutler and Richardson (1997). We extend their approach in two directions. First, the health …

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill … capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight … an important economic mechanism driving human-capital formation, socio-economic and health disparities, human …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …