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 …

potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. The analysis includes cross … association between health outcomes, in particular cardiovascular health, and the perception of unfair pay. …

, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival …, immigrants are found to be healthier than the natives (healthy immigrant effect), but their health deteriorates over time spent …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … wide range of health behaviors (e.g. alcohol and tobacco consumption, physical activity, diet and sleep) as potential … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …

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 …

longitudinal data from both countries to examine whether immigrants differ in their use of health services compared to native born … health than the native-born population, the samples of immigrants in both countries use hospital and GP services at broadly …

Anticipating one's future self is a unique human capacity that contributes importantly to adaptation and health … effects of self-rated health and income. Survival analyses revealed that in later adulthood, underestimating one's life …) across 10 or more years, even after controlling for age, sex, education, income, and self-rated health. Findings suggest that …