preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. The former are 1) responses to … measurement error in these 'objective, self-reported' measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches … a variety of self-reports of health with respondents' medical records. Our findings are striking. For example, the ratio …

preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. The former are 1) responses to … measurement error in these 'objective, self-reported' measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches … a variety of self-reports of health with respondents' medical records. Our findings are striking. For example, the ratio …

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 …

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 …