interact in explaining a range of health outcomes. Using rich Australian survey data, we find that, while the two traits are … of control and health is reduced once we control for self-control, suggesting that self-control mediates at least part of … physical health. …

health behavior. For that purpose we set up a physiologically founded model of health deficit accumulation and calibrate it … using recent insights from gerontology. From fitting life cycle health expenditure and life expectancy we obtain estimates …