caregivers. A negative health shock of a family member also has a direct negative effect on mental health, providing evidence of … a family effect. These findings imply that most studies may have overestimated the negative health effects of caregiving …Informal caregiving is a potentially attractive alternative to formal care but may entail health costs for the …

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 …

-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be … strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are correlatedbecause of …

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin …-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …

coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness …

outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …