The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that … technological change along with the increase in the generosity of health insurance may explain independently 53% of the rise in …

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …