This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …

We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression … discontinuity design that exploits GPA cut-offs, we find that admission to the preferred study field improves mental health …, lowering both the incidence of antidepressant prescriptions and of mental health-related hospitalizations. Engineering …

of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving … the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and … those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

This paper investigates the relationship between partner's mental health and individual life satisfaction, using a …'s mental health and to calculate the Compensating Income Variation (CIV) of them. To the best of our knowledge, this is the … first paper to study the effect of partner's mental health on individual's wellbeing and to measure the impact of reduced …

general health problems in youth is an important health predictor for later life home care use. A large portion of this effect …In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this … early life health and later life home care use. We also account for selective attrition. Our empirical findings show that …

health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …