The authors formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on the human capital framework of health provided by Grossman. They explicitly assume a functional form of the utility function and carefully account for initial conditions, which...

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be informed by the ready availability of genetic data in a growing number of social science datasets. This paper...

This paper investigates how Italian labour market institutions influence business cyclefluctuations. We apply a DSGE model that features Italian labour market rigidities and weestimate the latter on Italian data using Bayesian techniques to assess the effects of demand,supply, and labour market...