experience chronic or acute health conditions, or the loss of a spouse. Accordingly, this empirical pattern has been called the … "paradox of well-being." We examine the age profile of life satisfaction of the U.S. population age 65 and older in the Health …. Widowing and health shocks play important roles in this decline. We reconcile the cross-section and longitudinal measurements …

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 …

One way to demonstrate how remarkable changes in the process of aging have been is to compare health over the life … were common even at young ages. Other factors contributing to lifelong poor health were widespread exposure to severely … experienced better health throughout their lives largely due to their lower exposure to environmental hazards before birth and …

Self-reported health status (SRHS) is an imperfect measure of non-fatal health, but allows examination of how health … status varies over the life course. Although women have lower mortality than men, they report worse health status up to age … bottom quartile already report worse health than do men in the top quartile at age 50. In the bottom quartile of income, SRHS …

those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this … paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick …

benefits. Often, poor health is cited as the main reason why workers cannot work until the regular retirement age. In this … market if they wanted to and if they were not limited by poor health? To answer this question, we follow two different … empirical approaches with a similar logic: we estimate the link between health and labor force participation in a population …