We investigate the labour supply response to acute health shocks experienced in the post-crash labour market by … acute health shock, defined by the incidence of cancer, stroke, or heart attack. Results, obtained through a combination of … coarsened exact and propensity score matching, show acute health shocks significantly reduce participation, with younger workers …

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …

This paper adds to the literature on the income-health gradient by exploring the association of short- and long …-term income with a wide set of self-reported health measures and objective nurse-administered and blood-based biomarkers as well …. The income-health gradients are greater in magnitude in case of long-run rather than cross- sectional income measures …

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …

self-insurance through a partner’s response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical …Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … evidence on the existence of a health-related `added worker effect’. We use UK longitudinal data to investigate within …