political spectrum wanted mortality and healthcare to be distributed more evenly among the rich and poor than they estimated …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

health outcomes using cross sectional and panel datasets of 156 countries from 1970 to 2015. This study uses three dimensions … expectancy and lowering infant mortality. Moreover, the results show that state capacity in terms of "ability" has the largest … impact on health outcomes while in terms of "position" its effect is limited. Findings of the study are robust to different …

retirement impacts mortality or health care utilization. …This essay estimates the causal effect of postponing retirement on a wide range of health outcomes using Swedish … administrative data on cause-specific mortality, hospitalizations and drug prescriptions. Exogenous variation in retirement timing …