than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there … relationships between socio-economic status and health. We describe the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels …, and we repeat their analysis using the full range of data that have become available in the Health and Retirement Study …

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 … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …

showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis …There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in … model, the pure consumption model and a combination of both types of models. Given the plausible assumptions that (i) health … declines with age and that (ii) the health capital stock at death is lower than the health capital stock needed for eternal …

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 …

making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …

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

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 … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …