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 …

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …

denial of mortality-relevant information interact with intertemporal choices and may lead to time-inconsistent behavior and … other "behavioral" phenomena. In the model, repression of signals of mortality leads to underconsumption for unsophisticated … to act according to one's mortality prospects as currently perceived. We show that the mere possibility of engaging in …

In many health domains, we are concerned that observed links - for example, between “healthy” behaviors and good … vary over time. When a particular health behavior becomes more recommended, the take-up of the behavior may be larger among … people with other positive health behaviors. Such changes in selection would make it even more difficult to learn about …

pandemic influenced health outcomes. We first document large differences in content between the two most popular cable news …

We project the effects of declining smoking and increasing obesity on mortality in the United States over the period … current and age-25 obesity status observed in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-2006. Projections of … cancer. We find that both changes in smoking and in obesity are expected to have large effects on mortality. For males, the …

We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health … behaviors of older adults, using data from eight waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Our main finding is that … bequests do not have substantial effects on health, although some improvements in quality-of-life are possible. This absence …

(education, income, and health insurance coverage) on life expectancy and medical expenditure using longitudinal state-level data …

health status, measured in various ways is similar in both countries, mortality/incidence ratios for various cancers tend to …Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems …