Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack …. Motivated by the observation that medical care explains only a relatively small part of the SES-health gradient, we present a … conditions, and health investment, provide mechanisms through which SES, health, and longevity are related. As a result, the …

We construct a unified objective measure of health status: the frailty index, defined as the cumulative sum of all … adverse health indicators observed for an individual. First, we show that the frailty index has several advantages over self …-reported health status, particularly when studying health dynamics. Then we estimate a stochastic process for frailty dynamics over …

by the fetal origins hypothesis. We argue that while the conventional health capital model is irreconcilable with fetal … origins of late-in-life health outcomes, the more recent health deficit model can generate shock amplification consistent with … the hypothesis. In order to discuss human health over the life cycle from conception to death, we develop a theory of …

We construct a health measurement model which combines panel data on self-reported health with a rich set of health … measures from administrative medical records. Our estimated health model allows us to predict health status for the population … at large. We account both for unobserved heterogeneity and for the persistence in unobserved health shocks. To account …