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pro vyhledávání: '"Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature"'
Autor:
James P. Smith
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104:13225-13231
This paper investigates levels in diabetes prevalence patterns across key socioeconomic status indicators and how they changed over time. The investigation spans both the conventional concept of diagnosed diabetes and a more comprehensive measure tha
Economics of health and mortality special feature: race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104(33)
We document racial trends in chronic conditions among older men between 1910 and 2004. The 1910 black arteriosclerosis rate was six times higher than the white 2004 rate and more than two times higher than the 2004 black rate. We argue that blacks' g
The rise of 401(k) plans and the decline of defined benefit plans will have an important effect on the wealth of future retirees. Changing demographic structure also will affect the aggregate stock of retirement wealth. We project the stock of assets
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::b4349cdb2d20dbd770d66c73d0690dcf
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1948948/
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1948948/
In recent decades, elderly Americans have enjoyed enormous gains in longevity and reductions in disability. The causes of this progress remain unclear, however. This paper investigates the role of fetal programming, exploring how economic progress ea
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https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1948901/
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1948901/
Autor:
James J. Heckman
This article begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understan
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http://www.nber.org/papers/w13195.pdf
http://www.nber.org/papers/w13195.pdf
Autor:
Dora L. Costa
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104:13217-13218
This issue of PNAS brings together a collection of six papers concerning the economics and demography of aging, written in honor of Robert Fogel's 80th birthday. Robert Fogel is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Inst