response scales across countries, partly related to social insurance generosity and employment protection. Furthermore, we find …To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback …

Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …

Smith uses the HRS and AHEAD panels to examine the consequences of new health on a series of SES related outcomes- out …-of-pocket labor supply, labor force activity, household income and wealth. For each of these outcomes, new severe health events have a … health status. The reasons for this continuing predictive effect of education are explored in the paper …

In this paper, we investigate the issue of partner selection in the health of individuals who are at least fifty years … education of partners and their parents. Adult health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and exercise are more positively … associated in England compared to the United States. Childhood health indicators are also positively associated across partners …

In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of … Health and Retirement Study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - nationally representative surveys of the age 50 … plus population in America and England respectively. We show that the origins of poorer adult health among older Americans …

This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers …, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to … the dynamic patterns of employment. …

crisis on labor market outcomes. Aggregate employment has remained remarkably robust through the crisis although there has … been significant switching within sectors. The drama of the crisis lies not in aggregate employment but in real hourly …