We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health … insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who usually buy private health insurance. Private health insurance …

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 …

This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age … cohorts. It uses the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey 2010, which provides both a number of health outcomes and … displacement on child health, namely a linear regression model and propensity score matching. In order to capture different …

Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …