mortality risk to higher ages will not affect lifetime health care expenditures as death occurs only once in every life. We … life and for survivors, which we apply to the projections of the age structure and mortality rates for the German …

benefits. Of these two distinct policy approaches to coping with the fiscal consequences of improving longevity, increasing the …

, rising longevity - through falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies … due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence … impact of rising longevity on the trend of HCE over time by using data for a pseudo-panel of German sickness fund members …

Empirical evidence from several countries reveals that self-rated health is a valid predictor of mortality. So far … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …

In the expected-utility theory of the monetary value of a statistical life, the so-called "dead-anyway" effect … discovered by Pratt and Zeckhauser (1996) asserts that an individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for small reductions in mortality …