primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …

manipulating incentives to participate in this health intervention allows us to study peer effects with organizational data and to … sickness absence during the flu season. Getting vaccinated was ineffective with no measurable health externalities from … coworker vaccination. We rule out meaningful individual health effects when considering several thresholds of expected vaccine …

through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions – on behaviors related to future health risks after three …

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 …

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

Utilizing a nationally representative panel data of middle-aged and elder individuals from China, we assess the health … that the negative impact of air pollution on female health is significant, particularly for females in the middle of the … health distribution. Notably, the implementation of environmental policies leads to health improvements in females and plays …

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … level of the oldest-old and of his/her spouse, etc., plays an insignificant role in the health of oldest-old. Oldest …