Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the … spouse, disability, and a move toa nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. Forexample, the … behavior,health status, and major life events, over time. To deal with endogenousaspects of these events we apply fixed effects …

spatial interactions, spatial externalities and networking effects among actors, evoked the area of spatial econometrics …. Spatial econometrics focuses on the specification and estimation of regression models explicitly incorporating such spatial …

remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …

Disentangling age, period, and cohort effects in explaining health trends is crucial to assess future prevalences of … health disorders. The identification problem -- age, period, and cohort effects are perfectly linearly related -- is tackled … by modeling cohort and period effects using lifetime macro-indicators. This approach -- innovative in analyses on health …