Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … panel data from the European Community Household Panel surveys. We use pooled interval regressions and inequality …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods applied to both the decision to smoke or not and to the decision …

and individual unobserved heterogeneity. We distinguish between the two by using semi-parametric panel data selection … regulations, social norms on and tolerance towards smoking, and awareness of its health risks …

We study smoking persistence in ten countries using data from the European Community Household Panel. Such persistence … two by using semi-parametric dynamic panel data methods applied to both the decision to smoke or not and to the decision … model. -- Smoking ; panel data ; selectivity …