A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

health spending simultaneously controlling for time effects (i.e. institutional changes and business cycles effects) and … estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group, especially for individuals older than 60 years. The …

In this paper we construct life-cycle profiles of U.S. health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure … Panel Survey (MEPS). We separate pure age effects on health expenditure from time effects (i.e. productivity effects … trend. Time and cohort effects introduce a significant estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group …