health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

In this project we extend an augmented lifecycle model, incorporating a Grossman-style model of health capital, to … enhance understanding of factors influencing consumption, wealth and health. We develop three primary results when using the … calibration implies consumption and health are complements. As health depreciates with age, households will get less utility from …

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 …

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 …

bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … (ADL) and in term of mortality. Our results suggest that besides aging, there are other important factors contributing to …

mediating effect to the global mortality prevalence. In particular, utilizing the panel data gathered from World Health …/AIDS mortality. Three health indicators were identified to have indirect effect while two indicators have a direct effect on HIV …The alarming global incidence of HIV/AIDS epidemic prompted this research undertaking to explore several health …