Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on health from other geographic differences in life...

Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) awards rise in recessions and fall in expansions, especially for older adults. Using Medicare administrative data for DI entrants between 1991 and 2015, we provide new evidence on the health of DI recipients who enter at different ages and points in the...

Using 20 years of data on Medicare beneficiaries, we predict the end-of-century mortality effects of climate change among the U.S. elderly, accounting at the ZIP code level for both adaptation and regional heterogeneity in the temperature-mortality relationship. We find that this relationship...