-perceived health. …

British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a determinant of retirement age and are quantitatively … health limitations and a measure of latent health status obtained from a generalized ordered probit model. Further, our … results provide evidence that, for women, the health status of their partner impacts on their retirement decisions; and effect …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …

We examine whether income shocks affect a range of health outcomes and a preventative behaviour. We instrument income …-cyclical effect of income on health. A ten percent increase in income reduces by 0.2 the number of illnesses. A further finding is the …

This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in …' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer) is jointly estimated, using the 1984/5 British Health and Lifestyle … behaviours as well as health outcomes. Results from this discrete latent factor model are found to be substantially different to …

natural setting to explore the impact of educational attainment and of school quality on health and health-related behaviour … evaluate differences in adult health outcomes and health-related behaviour for cohort members exposed to the old selective and …

This paper explores the role of quality of schooling as a source of inequality of opportunity in health. Substantiating … earlier literature that links differences in education to health disparities, the paper uses variation in quality of schooling … to test for inequality of opportunity in health. Analysis of the 1958 NCDS cohort exploits the variation in type and …

Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …