The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to … threefold increase in the legal minimum pension on labor supply and retirement behaviour at older ages. Applying difference … income effect that caused additional retirement of 30 to 47 percent. Additional evidence suggests that retirement incentives …

, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …

. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …

of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian Demographic and Health Survey, we examine the …

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 …

Excessive alcohol consumption among young people is a major public health concern. On March 1, 2010, the German state …

habits proved stronger in states that had more strict smoking bans. Public smoking bans, therefore, have important health …