latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' heterogeneous health when they grow older. This paper … explores the relevance of this idea using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) panel data. It … first quantifies the health gradient across and within each of the European countries across sociodemographic groups (i …

It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …

Empirical studies from developed countries observe that women report worse health and higher healthcare utilization … than men, but the health disadvantage diminishes with age; gender differences in self-rated health often vanish or are … reversed in older ages. Comparable assessments of health during later life from developing countries are limited because of …

It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …

Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This … robust finding holds in all regions representing different health insurance systems and seems to be independent of underlying …

combines the 7th wave of the SHARE panel data on health at an older age and US occupational O*NET data. With these unique data … it first quantifies the impact of entire career arduousness on health at typical retirement age, relative to other key … determinants (gender, childhood health, parental longevity). It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that …

supply. Chapter 2 on the other hand investigates the impact of grandchild care on grandparent health. Chapter 3 analyses the …

and patterns of inequalities in health outcomes. In this paper we present the results obtained from several dynamic … time comparable longterm trends in individual health status across OECD. The FEM is a multi-risk multi-morbidity dynamic … microsimulation model to project health status and health demand. Given the dynamic structure of the model, we allow individual health …

instrumental variable (IV) strategy that relies on the differential decline in the health and functional status of spouses to … widow using rich longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study. The presence of such features reduces the … of health shock that is a main driver of housing tenure transitions among the elderly. Although somewhat speculative …