income lost. Female and younger recipients, as well as those with more subjectively defined disabilities, were able to …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage … generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …

analyses were based on the newly developed SHARE (Survey of Health, Age, and Retirement in Europe) database. We found (1) that …

income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …, the median person prioritises health of poorer individuals less than is assumed in the standard measure of income …

remainder dueto unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the genderlog wage gap is due to differences between … across the wage distribution, particularly in the top half of thedistribution. …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …