, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is … primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … (ADL) and in term of mortality. Our results suggest that besides aging, there are other important factors contributing to … bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches … increase social welfare. The chapter summarizes the literature on the consequences of risky health behaviors for economic …

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define … absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance … provide robust empirical evidence that respondents who overestimate their health are less likely to exercise and sleep enough …

on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with … knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for …We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …

In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health … diagnosed with a mental health condition. We then analyze mental health development and risky health behaviors other than … choices and mental health, in which mental health disparity across groups is generated by different degrees of selfcontrol …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …