more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … to account for selection and reverse causality. Distinguishing between layoffs and business closures, we find no evidence …

While there is mounting evidence that large income shocks, e.g. in the form of a job loss, may impact health and … income constant, and health. This paper exploits rich survey data on the near-elderly in Canada paired with their … administrative tax records to investigate whether a relationship exists between health and well-being on the one hand, and individual …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …

We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and … significantly from selection on observables, except for race and ethnicity; for these two observables, longitudinal weights based on … the Current Population Survey (CPS) can be used and are provided with the data set. We attribute this lack of selection to …

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

We estimate the effects of employer downsizing on older workers' health outcomes using different approaches to control … for endogeneity and sample selection. With the exception of the instrumental variables approach, which provides large … imprecise estimates, our results suggest that employer downsizing increases the probability that older workers rate their health …