Near the end of life, health declines, mortality risk increases and curative is replaced by uninsured long-term care … closing down the shop justification where agents' decisions affect their health and the timing of death. Despite preferring to … live, individuals optimally deplete their health and wealth towards levels associated with high death risk and indifference …

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 …

Sociological theory and research point to the importance of social relationships in affecting health behavior. This … adult populations. Yet recent advances demonstrate that early life course experiences shape health outcomes well into … adulthood. We synthesize disparate bodies of research on social ties and health behavior throughout the life course, with …