Tag: michal engelman

Engelman, Michal, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, and Emily M. Agree Working paper no. 2013-10 Abstract This paper asks how the demographic and epidemiologic transitions of the past century and a half have influenced patterns of survival and health in aging populations. We hypothesize that survival improvements at younger ages may yield an older population with a more …

Engelman, Michal, and Heide JacksonWorking paper no. 2017-01 Abstract This paper examines the curious mismatch between the supposition of gradual, continuous change embedded in common health trajectory models and a pattern of punctuated stability that is captured in the nationally-representative and widely-used Health and Retirement Study. Inspired by an insight from evolutionary biology, our analysis contrasts …