Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

self-assessed health. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), difference-in-differences estimations provide … evidence for health improvements for the population at large. Health benefits from the secondhand smokefree environment are … equivalent to an increase in household income of approximately 30%. Further subgroup analyses show that health improvements are …

This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the … biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included … health does, and much more than unemployment and income do. Income explains 1% of the variance of life-satisfaction or less …

A Dynamic Hurdle Model for Zero-Inflated Count Data: With an Application to Health Care UtilizationExcess zeros are …

. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …