Using a variety of data sets from two countries, we examine possible explanations for the
relationship between education and health behaviors, known as the education gradient. We …

Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being (Older Americans 2008) is the fourth in
a series of reports produced by the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics …

The use of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for estimating hierarchical models
involves complex data structures and is often described as a revolutionary development. An …

An intermediate-level treatment of Bayesian hierarchical models and their applications, this
book demonstrates the advantages of a Bayesian approach to data sets involving inferences …

This article reviews the literature on life expectancy in the disabled population. The literature
is surveyed with regard to the main elements that reduce life expectancy for people with …

Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are
large and have been growing. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this …

I study the role of social security in providing insurance when there is adverse selection in
the annuity market. I calculate welfare gain from mandatory annuitization in the social …

Health literacy is a priority issue in both medicine and public health, as it refers to the
capacity to obtain and understand basic health information and services and to make …

Three of the papers in this volume (Brown, Feldstein-Liebman, and Liebman) make use of a
new set of life tables that differentiate mortality experience by sex, race, and education level …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated illness significantly damage people's physical
and mental health. Previous studies focus on the role of strong government public-health …