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 …

Married people live longer than singles but how much of the longevity differential is causal and what the particular … biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U … longevity of men can be motivated by economic calculus while the marriage gain for women observed in the data is attributed to …

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 …