making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …

dividend in today’s China. Literature related to elderly health in countries other than China often starts with medical … effects on the health of the elderly. This article reviews economic research on these topics and then discusses possible …

creativity of older adults in order to prepare individuals and communities to manage old age. Programs focus on the evolution of …

This paper updates earlier EBRI research on estimated savings needed to cover health insurance to supplement Medicare … and out-of-pocket expenses for health care services in retirement. It finds that men retiring at age 65 in 2009 will need … anywhere from $68,000 to $173,000 in savings to cover health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses in retirement if …

model with endogenous aging and longevity. Individuals can slow down aging and postpone death by health investments and by … smoke less and invest more in their health. Consequently, they accumulate health deficits faster and die earlier than … originally planned. This fundamental health consequence of time-inconsistency has not been addressed in the literature so far …

by the fetal origins hypothesis. We argue that while the conventional health capital model is irreconcilable with fetal … origins of late-in-life health outcomes, the more recent health deficit model can generate shock amplification consistent with … the hypothesis. In order to discuss human health over the life cycle from conception to death, we develop a theory of …