the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and … longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on … wages. Health deficit accumulation is also influenced by unhealthy consumption and health care expenditure. I calibrate the …

There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

health of individuals (as measured by the height of conscripts) and its disparities between individuals and regions in Italy …", that is I hypothesize that exposure to malaria in utero or during childhood has persistent effects on health. Periods under … scrutiny in this paper are the last two decades of the XIX century, a period without major public health interventions, and the …