researchers especially in health economics emphasizing the policy importance of the phenomenon. Although the bias has been …

This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health … potential endogeneity of job insecurity is not accounted for, the latter appears to deteriorate almost all health outcomes. When … tackling the endogeneity issue by estimating an IV model and dealing with potential weak-instrument issues, the health …

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in … Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older … for the oldest old. This decline is primarily attributable to low levels of perceived health. Once cohort effects are also …

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio …) cross-sectional causality problems and (b) absence of objective measures of physical health that complement self …-reported measures of health status. Not only does using the panel structure with individual fixed effects mitigate the bias from …

This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search … faced with ambiguity over wage distributions. …

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … impatience are found to be significant predictors of health related field behavior and saving decisions. In particular, more …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

drive the demand for risk reduction, and some to alter both. Our findings suggest that 30 percent of all insurance payments …

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …