This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated … with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total … household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 …

responses to domestic and global health shocks are heterogeneous; however, they almost always exhibit delays and sluggish … adjustments. Unemployment responses vary widely across countries. Unemployment is particularly responsive to health shocks in the …

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 …

affected companies, households and the global economy. We explore the effect of this health and economic shock on labor market …