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This paper attempts to quantify the private and public economic value of reducing obesity through pharmaceutical and …, taxes and other spending. Obesity treatment generates substantial per-period savings in medical costs, but it also raises … lowers the prevalence of obesity, but the aggregate fiscal effects on the public-sector are small. …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558944
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010697235
The authors 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. They estimate that technological change along with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476236
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity …, and increases public assistance. Using a microsimulation approach, we quantify the competing public-finance consequences … obesity have increased net public-sector liabilities by $430bn, or approximately 4% of the current debt burden. Larger effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976893
, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in …
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, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042137
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity …, and increases public assistance. Using a microsimulation approach, we quantify the competing public-finance consequences … obesity have increased net public-sector liabilities by $430bn, or approximately 4% of the current debt burden. Larger effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042140
For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have … enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate …
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the Netherlands Ageing and Pensions model). SADNAP is being developed for calculating the financial and economic … implications of the ageing of the population and of the ageing-related policy measures that are being proposed to cope with ageing …
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