"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the … NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation … for households in the first nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of …

This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves … of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of poor health, such as out of pocket … medical expenses or lost earnings, we estimate how the evolution of household assets is related to poor health. We construct a …

This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves … of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of poor health, such as out of pocket … medical expenses or lost earnings, we estimate how the evolution of household assets is related to poor health. We construct a …

This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves … of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of poor health, such as out of pocket … medical expenses or lost earnings, we estimate how the evolution of household assets is related to poor health. We construct a …