In this paper, I combine economic theories of health behavior and addiction in order to explain the phenomenon of … anorexia nervosa and its impact on health and longevity. Individuals consume normal goods and foods and can work off excess … calories with physical exercise. There exists a healthy body mass index and deviations from it increasingly cause health …

making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …

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 …

biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …

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 …

In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and … longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on … wages. Health deficit accumulation is also influenced by unhealthy consumption and health care expenditure. I calibrate the …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …