Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between … be identified, whose origins are in part inherent to the special structural characteristics of the market for health but … focus on the demand for health, this paper takes a holistic approach toward modeling the health market, in order to account …

focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per … gains depended on economic growth but also on the advancement in medical knowledge. The pace and breadth of the health …

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 …

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

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 …

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