health, cognitive ability and mortality. The results are all over the place but on average it seems like at retirement mental … health improves, cognitive skills deteriorate and mortality is not affected. However, there is substantial effect … see the forest for the trees and advocate evidence-based retirement policies that take health effects into account …

Mental health conditions are prevalent but rarely treated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Little is known … about how these conditions affect economic participation. This paper shows that treating mental health conditions … all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) ever conducted that evaluate treatments for mental ill-health and measure economic …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …

Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition …-demographic groups to changes in health disparities by income in Spain using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Living … Conditions (SILC) for the period 2004-2012. We find a modest rise in health inequality by income in Spain in the five years of …

In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries … like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … and correct for reporting heterogeneity in sixteen domains of self-assessed health by wealth and race among elderly South …