Security rules, lifetime earnings, pension coverage, wages, health, health insurance, and the educational composition of the …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply …

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate the effect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men around retirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning … typically introduce an endogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. This results from …

biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to understanding … dynamic patterns of employment. -- work limiting disability ; health …