relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health …

with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong … significant interactions between substantive health impairments and life satisfaction. Higher subjective well-being may keep you …

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 …

We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …

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 …

of the super-wealthy or the top 0.01% of the population effect overall health of the population? This paper focuses on …

We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy … Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show that health and energy consumption are … between energy consumption and health indicators in Nigeria. In particular, our findings suggest that electricity consumption …

biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U …