Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical … households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their …

children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … child health outcomes, we find that while domestic violence primarily affects child health via deterioration in maternal … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …

, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated physical and mental health of sexual … minorities. Social rejection bears a negative association with physical and mental health. Family acceptance shares a positive … association with physical and mental health. Periods characterized by worse economic conditions (2013-2014 versus 2018 …

manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health …-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the capital city of Greece, Athens, where beggar children are not a … forced child begging was negatively associated with health-related quality of life and mental health for beggar children …

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 presents a meta-analysis on the effects of retirement on health. We select academic papers published between … 2000 and 2021 studying the impact of retirement on physical and mental health, self-assessed general health, healthcare … health outcomes. Almost 60% of the observations do not provide statistically significant findings. Using meta …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …