Economics of Health and Mortality

Economics of Health and Mortality
Dora L. Costa, editor

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

Table of Contents:

1. The Economics and Demography of Aging
Dora L. Costa


2. Race, Infection, and Arteriosclerosis in the Past
Dora L. Costa, Lorens A. Helmchen, and Sven Wilson


3. Nature and Causes of Trends in Male Diabetes Prevalence, Undiagnosed Diabetes, and the Socioeconomic Status Health Gradient
James P. Smith


4. Height, Health, and Development
Angus Deaton


5. The Shift from Defined Benefit Pensions to 401(k) Plans and the Pension Assets of the Baby Boom Cohort
James Poterba, Steven Venti, and David A. Wise


6. Evidence on Early-Life Income and Late-Life Health from America's Dust Bowl Era
David M. Cutler, Grant Miller, and Douglas M. Norton


7. The Economics, Technology, and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
James J. Heckman