ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF HEALTH EVENTS

这项研究将探讨重要的 新的健康事件和功能，行为和经济结果， 老年美国人使用纵向数据库的独特组合。 这项研究将采用三波健康和退休研究 (HRS)调查，两波最古老的资产和健康动态 旧（AHEAD）调查，以及四年医疗保险的十二波 当前受益人调查。 AHEAD和MCBS的分析将 涉及相关的纵向医疗保险索赔数据，以协助验证 和健康事件的表征。具体目标包括： 1.构建具有医学意义的变量和变量组 总结健康问题，特别是， 重大新的健康事件。 2.为了验证自我报告的存在和新发生的 通过使用相关的纵向医疗保险索赔，解决特定的健康问题 数据 3.对健康事件的后果进行探索性研究 对于功能状态，经济行为（特别是劳动力供应和 生活安排），以及个人及其 配偶

The proposed research will explore the relationship between important new health events and functional, behavioral, and economic outcomes for older Americans using a unique combination of longitudinal databases. The research will employ three waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) survey, two waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey, and twelve waves over four years of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS). Analysis of AHEAD and MCBS will involve linked longitudinal Medicare claims data to assist in validation and characterization of health events. The specific aims include: 1. To construct medically-meaningful variables and groups of variables to summarize health problems and, especially, the occurrence of significant new health events. 2. To validate self-reports of the existence and new occurrence of particular health problems, by using linked longitudinal Medicare claims data. 3. To conduct exploratory studies of the consequences of health events for functional status, economic behavior (particularly labor supply and living arrangements), and financial well-being of individuals and their spouses.