The authors formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on … consumption, health, health investment, savings and retirement. They argue that the Grossman literature has been unnecessarily … deteriorating health as an important reason for early retirement. They find that improvements in population health decrease the …

We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and … Retirement Study (HRS) sample born 1931-1941; the sample was initially drawn in 1992. Although some baseline characteristics of …

It is widely believed that health plays a major role in retirement decisions. The most important problem in including … health in retirement models is the lack of availability of a good measure of health at the individual level in existing data … response patterns. The usefulness of the health indexes is then investigated by including it in some simple retirement models …

We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate … that technological change and the increase in the generosity of health insurance on their own may explain 36% of the rise …

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that … technological change along with the increase in the generosity of health insurance may explain independently 53% of the rise in …

We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and … Retirement Study (HRS) sample born 1931-1941; the sample was initially drawn in 1992. Although some baseline characteristics of …

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that … technological change along with the increase in the generosity of health insurance may explain independently 53% of the rise in …

We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate … that technological change and the increase in the generosity of health insurance on their own may explain 36% of the rise …

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that … technological change along with the increase in the generosity of health insurance may explain independently 53% of the rise in …

We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and … Retirement Study (HRS) sample born 1931-1941; the sample was initially drawn in 1992. Although some baseline characteristics of …