environmental factors in early life can shape health and work levels in later life. Project researchers have approached this problem … implications of these findings for several issues in health economics are discussed …

drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

, there is limited evidence on how drug coverage might affect health. The goal of this paper is to obtain "causal effects" of … prescription drug coverage on drug use, use of other medical services and health of the elderly. We use fixed-effects analysis to … effect on hospital admissions or health …

We estimate how the marginal utility of consumption varies with health. To do so, we develop a simple model in which … the impact of health on the marginal utility of consumption can be estimated from data on permanent income, health, and … utility proxies. We estimate the model using the Health and Retirement Study's panel data on the elderly and near-elderly, and …

dataset containing 1.4 billion prescription records from Wolters Kluwer Health (WKH). These data span the period December 2004 …

. Individual differences in health status accounted for about 50 percent of the between-country variation in physician visits …-country variation, whereas individual health differences only accounted for 1 percent of the variation …

We study how the trajectory of health for the near-elderly uninsured changes upon enrolling into Medicare at the age of … 65. We find that Medicare increases the probability of the previously uninsured having excellent or very good health …, decreases their probability of being in good health, and has no discernable effects at lower health levels. Surprisingly, we …

Proposals to create a national health care plan such as "Medicare for All" rely heavily on reducing the prices that … insurers pay for health care. These changes affect physicians' short-run incentives for care provision and may also change … health care providers' incentives to invest in capacity, thereby influencing the availability of care in the long term. We …

from a hedonic model of health care in which heterogenous individuals choose how much to spend on medical services that … their federal administrative records. The mean VSL is approximately $1 million at age 67 and increasing in health, income …