We present new evidence on the relationship between health behaviors and experimental measures of risk and time … preferences and introduce evidence that perceived control - a measure incorporated from the health psychology literature - is a … stronger and more consistent predictor of health behaviors than economic preferences. …

expectancy will be associated with more or less life years spent with ill-health. Therefore it is useful to complement forecasts … of life expectancy with forecasts of health expectancies. To forecast health expectancy an extension of the stochastic … using regular life tables, one could project transition probabilities between health states simultaneously and use multi …

Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality …. However, no empirical evidence exists for Germany so far. We investigate the effectiveness of (i) self-ratings of health by … individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as predictors of mortality for Germany. Methods: A sub-sample of 3 …