interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential … futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline policy scenario of health care access, the calibrated model predicts … substantial future increases in health and life expectancy, associated with rising shares of health expenditure in GDP. Freezing …

interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential … futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline policy scenario of health care access, the calibrated model predicts … substantial future increases in health and life expectancy, associated with rising shares of health expenditure in GDP. Freezing …

relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic … transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic variables. -- Economic growth ; mortality ; fertility ; structural Change ; industrial revolution. …

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 …

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 …

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 …