Ghana, using evidence from four focus group discussions. It analyzes how the focus group participants think about various …

This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …

also gender-specific effects, with boys more strongly affected than girls. There is indicative evidence showing that the …

future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health …

German Socio-Economic Panel shows that the level of income also affects a person's health and life expectancy. People's self …-assessment of their health and health-related quality of life follow a distribution pattern which can be described as gradient: the … lower the income, the more frequent the impairments to subjective health. Life expectancy statistics also reflect income …

the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area … causal impact of poor health on labour force participation, hours worked and wages. There appears to be a significant … positive association between local area-level radiation dosage and health perception based on selfreported poor health status …

health than non-owners. This paper presents longitudinal evidence from a major national representative longitudinal survey …: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Because the data are longitudinal, it is possible to assess the impact on health … unexpected finding was that all health benefits appear to accrue to homeowners only. The main result, then, is that homeowners …

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …

population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the …

and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio … part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network … effects suggests that remittance behavior is affected by traditional gender roles. Third, the migrant's social integration in …