We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …

In this paper, we investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use … five waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a frailty index for …, regardless of the used classification, workers from the first (low status) group display more health deficits at any age and …

health behavior. For that purpose we set up a physiologically founded model of health deficit accumulation and calibrate it … using recent insights from gerontology. From fitting life cycle health expenditure and life expectancy we obtain estimates …

model with endogenous aging and longevity. Individuals can slow down aging and postpone death by health investments and by … smoke less and invest more in their health. Consequently, they accumulate health deficits faster and die earlier than … originally planned. This fundamental health consequence of time-inconsistency has not been addressed in the literature so far …

thereby, in the context of health economics, not enough investment in health and too much indulgence of unhealthy consumption … health than they would if they had a constant rate of time preference. Using a calibrated life-cycle model of human aging, we … high weight in life time utility. In an extension we show that the introduction of health-dependent survival probability …

thereby, in the context of health economics, not enough investment in health and too much indulgence of unhealthy consumption … health than they would if they had a constant rate of time preference. Using a calibrated life-cycle model of human aging, we … high weight in life time utility. In an extension we show that the introduction of health-dependent survival probability …