While a growing literature examining the relationship between income and health expenditures suggests that health care …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …

We estimate the impact of health and financial incentives on the retirement transitions of older workers in Spain …. Individual measures of pension wealth, peak and accrual values are constructed using labor market histories and health shocks are … derived as changes in a composite health stock measure over time. We examine labour market exits into both old age retirement …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

of the neighborhood effect on health using observational data, which has the advantage of providing general results that … pollution, crime, and noise on self-assessed health, presence of chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities. We … to health, through instrumental variable methods and several endogeneity tests. The main novelty is the sound estimation …

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the ¯rst three waves of …

This paper presents an overview of microsimulation as a method to evaluate health and health care policies and … FEM used to simulate lifecycle health trajectories and associated health care costs under competing policy scenarios to …