We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

were impaired in the performance of at least one basic activity. It describes their wealth, living arrangements, and health … characteristics. Tobit regressions are presented that relate utilization of hospital services, paid home-health care, and unreimbursed … home-health care utilization in this population are distinct from the factors that have been significant predictors of …

the influence of health on these precesses. We also study the evolution of elderly health and the impact of economic … variables on health outcomes. We present results from estimating our models using data from waves one and two of the AHEAD … of equations. We divide households for which head and partner (if present) are in poor health and those for which head …

This study examines retirement outcomes in the first four waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Measured retirement …

pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in … chronic pain at age 44 continue to report pain and poor general health in their 50s. However, the associations are much … stronger for those with chronic pain. Furthermore, chronic pain at age 44 is associated with a range of poor mental health …

in this paper we specify and estimate a structural limited dependent variable model with which we study both the health … endogeneously determined health status affects the probability of retirement and how changes in social security benefits and …

areas that bear on the Medicare problem: the number of the elderly, their health status, use of medical care, labor force … expectancy at age 65; 2) a very large increase since 1976 in real per capita health care expenditures on the elderly relative to … expenditures on persons under age 65; 3) a cross-sectional increase with age in per capita health care expenditures that is …

the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …

policies consume more and enjoy slightly better physical health status, they report more severe depression symptoms. In this … paper, we present a more complete picture of the difference in mental health among residents in rural and urban areas … mental health status among the elderly Chinese …