Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …

experiencing a depressive episode report less willingness to take risks in general, but more willingness to take health risks, for …

mind to alter these attitudes and biases, and health-related behaviours in particular, using a randomized controlled … impact of our interventions on risk-taking and inter-temporal decisions, as well as on a range of measures of health … behavioural traits and health-related behaviours. Our findings have significant implications for a new domain of research on …

To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on … period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed to poor health status in early childhood (indicated by low birth weight … partially explained by the fact that poor early health status leads to risk aversion. Early health status is not significantly …

. Workers hit by a health shock at high-quality firms are less likely to take up disability insurance or exit the labor force …We study the role that firms play in social insurance benefit uptake after their workers experience health shocks …-employee administrative data linked to individual-level health records, we find that firm responses to worker health shocks are heterogeneous …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …