health, which is quite persistent over the life-time. Persons in poor health in old age have a higher … supplement their income, and are in poor health. In general, low assets and low income in old age are strongly related to poor … health. We explore this nexus and describe the relationship between Social Security benefits and the exhaustion of non …

following retirement depends in part on health capital and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement, which in turn are … health and financial capital accumulated prior to retirement from the effects of education that impinge directly on asset … Security benefits and defined benefit pension benefits--and through health capital that was accumulated before retirement. We …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older … men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at … older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of mortality, the employment rates of older workers vary substantially …

mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life …

ways that reflect an expectation of longer work lives. But do older Americans have the health capacity to work longer? This … mortality rate in the past or as much as their younger counterparts in similar health. Using both methods, we estimate that … there is significant additional capacity to work at older ages. We also explore whether there are differences in health …

whether higher employment among older persons might increase youth unemployment and finds no link between the two. The fifth … and sixth volumes focus on the disability insurance (DI) program, finding that changes in DI participation are more … closely linked to DI reforms than to changes in health and that reducing access to DI would raise labor supply. This seventh …

related to education – health, wealth, occupation, and employment – feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …Education is strongly related to participation in the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program. To explore …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women – can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with …

We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and … individual's asset change between the first and last date of observation, that individual's education and health status when … first observed, and that individual's within-sample changes in health and family composition. We obtain estimates for HRS …

We consider how age-health profiles differ by demographic characteristics such as education, race, and ethnicity. A key … feature of the analysis is the joint estimation of health and mortality to correct for the effect of mortality selection on … observed age-health profiles. The model also allows for heterogeneity in individual health at a point in time and the …