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 …

society. Here, we assess the health capacity to work of older men in South Korea and provide a cross-country comparison …Health capacity to work for the elderly is an essential piece of information for designing social policies in an aging … health status, we quantify the additional employment capacity of current older men in reference to the mortality …

in atmospheric science into econometric estimation with microdata on mortality and health. Combining transboundary …

to examine the health capacity to work at aged 50 and above. This study finds that, first, the health status of the … participation rate has not seen an equivalent increase alongside the improvement in health. Second, the gap in labor force …

mortality rate worked in the past, and (ii) how much could older adults extend their working lives if their health status … improved. The results point to a sizable health capacity to work (HCW) among both older Korean men and women. Furthermore, the …