Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Erel, Devin; Strulik, Holger - 2019
particular regularity, akin to the compensation effect of mortality. Health deficits converge for men and women and across American …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 …