Economic and demographic factors are key determinants of health status in old age. Although,in recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the evaluation of the relationships between these factors and individual health status in Italy, limited attention has been devoted to the link...

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...

We consider how age-health profiles differ by demographic characteristics such as education, race, and ethnicity. A key feature of the analysis is the joint estimation of health and mortality to correct for the effect of mortality selection on observed age-health profiles. The model also allows...

Using micro data from eleven European countries, we investigate the impact of being socially active on cognition in older age. Cognitive abilities are measured through scores on numeracy, fluency and recall tests. We address the endogeneity of social activities through panel data and...

Social relationships predict health and emotional wellbeing across the life course. However, it is not known whether gradients in social engagement, social network size or quality in later life mirror socio-economic and health gradients in childhood. This study investigates the long-term impact...

Este trabajo estudia los determinantes socioeconómicos de la obesidad, así como el impacto de ésta en la hipertensión de los adultos mayores (a partir de los sesenta años) de Montevideo, Uruguay, el país con la población más envejecida del hemisferio sur. Mediante la utilización de la...

This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with previous studies focused on periods of expansion, as in African countries. Simulations for Honduras, the epicenter of the epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely...

This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality. To identify the causal effect, I exploit the earthquake that occurred in midwestern Japan in 1995 as a natural experiment inducing exogenous variation in the level of...

Questo lavoro è il primo di una serie che CERM dedica alle proiezioni della spesa sanitaria pubblica a carico del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale. Partendo dai profili di spesa tariffaria pro-capite per fascia di età delle Regioni benchmark, di fonte Ministero della Salute, si costruiscono i...

Il processo di graduale ma continuo invecchiamento della popolazione, che tutti i Paesi industrializzati stanno sperimentando, ha reso necessario approfondire la valutazione dell'impatto che ne deriva per gli equilibri del sistema sociale e, di conseguenza, per le finanze pubbliche. In Italia,...