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 … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …

health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period …We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to … investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that …

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 …

We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …

Framework impact subjective well-being. The results show that income is an important determinant of subjective well-being. The … and those with access to health insurance have higher levels of subjective well-being. Time spent walking or exercising is … positively correlated with happiness, while working more than 50 hours per week or spending time on health-related activities is …

technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth … have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported happiness increases with income, an issue particularly resonant in a … country with among the highest levels of income inequality in the OECD and a pattern of inequality that appears to be moving …

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …