Married people live longer than singles but how much of the longevity gap is causal and what the particular mechanisms … making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …% of the marriage gain in longevity of men can be motivated by economic calculus while the marriage gain for women observed …

This paper extends the theory of optimal aging and death (Dalgaard and Strulik, 2010, 2013) towards uncertain death … expense of less analytical tractability the model provides a formal description of aging as conceptualized in modern biology …

approach in order to gauge to what extent gender differences in longevity can be attributed to gender-specific preferences and …

This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging … benchmark case a difference in cognitive ability that motivates one more year of education leads to an increase of longevity by …

This paper extends the theory of optimal aging and death (Dalgaard and Strulik, 2010, 2013) towards uncertain death … expense of less analytical tractability the model provides a formal description of aging as conceptualized in modern biology …

This note extends the theory of optimal aging and death (Dalgaard and Strulik, 2010) towards uncertain death …

This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging … unhealthy behavior and 5 percent more health expenditure and thus explains half a year gain of longevity. Progress in medical …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …

Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …