The gender gap in mortality: How much is explained by behavior?
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A novel approach to gauge the extent to which gender differences in longevity can be attributed to gender-specific preferences and health behavior and offers also an economic explanation for why the gender gap declines with rising income.About:
This article is published in Journal of Health Economics.The article was published on 2017-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 66 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Life expectancy.read more
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Table 1: Calibration Results 
Figure 4: Income and the Gender Gap 
Figure 2: Optimal Aging and Death of Men and Women: Life Trajectories 
Figure 5: Life Trajectories for Men and Women: The Case of Unhealthy Consumption 
Figure 6: Counterfactual: If Women Had Men’s Preferences 
Table 2: Sensitivity Analysis βF : When Women Like Unhealthy Consumption Less than Men
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Social Distancing Compliance under COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Impacts: A Population-Based Study
TL;DR: Adoption, perceived effectiveness, and perceived compliance with social distancing were associated with lower stress levels and less anxiety and depressive symptoms, however, more days stayed-at-home wereassociated with more depressive symptoms.
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Cross-national comparison of sex differences in ADL and IADL in Europe: findings from SHARE
Lasse Lybecker Scheel-Hincke,Sören Möller,Sören Möller,Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen,Bernard Jeune,Linda Juel Ahrenfeldt +5 more
TL;DR: The results lend support for the male–female health survival paradox by showing that European women have higher risk of ADL and IADL limitations than European men and that sex differences increase with advancing age.
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How We Fall Apart: Similarities of Human Aging in 10 European Countries
TL;DR: An age at which average health deficits converge for men and women and across countries is suggested, similar to the compensation effect of mortality, which may be associated with human life span.
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The return to education in terms of wealth and health
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the extent to which the education gradient can be explained by fully rational and efficient behavior of all social strata and proposed a life-cycle model in which the loss of body functionality, which eventually leads to death, can be accelerated by unhealthy behavior and delayed through health expenditure.
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Code and data files for "The Genesis of the Golden Age: Accounting for the Rise in Health and Leisure"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a life cycle model featuring an optimal retirement decision in the presence of physiological aging, which can account for the evolution of age of retirement and longevity across cohorts born between 1850 and 1940 in the US.
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THE EQUITY PREMIUM A Puzzle
Rajnish Mehra,Edward C. Prescott +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that an equilibrium model which is not an Arrow-Debreu economy will be the one that simultaneously rationalizes both historically observed large average equity return and the small average risk-free return.
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A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people
Kenneth Rockwood,Xiaowei Song,Chris MacKnight,Howard Bergman,David B. Hogan,Ian McDowell,Arnold Mitnitski +6 more
TL;DR: The ability of the Clinical Frailty Scale to predict death or need for institutional care, and correlated the results with those obtained from other established tools are determined.
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Gender Differences in Preferences
Rachel Croson,Uri Gneezy +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the literature on gender differences in economic experiments and identified robust differences in risk preferences, social (other-regarding) preferences, and competitive preferences, speculating on the source of these differences and their implications.
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On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health
TL;DR: A model of the demand for the commodity "good health" is constructed and it is shown that the shadow price rises with age if the rate of depreciation on the stock of health rises over the life cycle and falls with education if more educated people are more efficient producers of health.
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Aging, natural death, and the compression of morbidity.
TL;DR: The average age at first infirmity can be raised, thereby making the morbidity curve more rectangular, and present data allow calculation of the ideal average life span, approximately 85 years.