) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession.Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with … knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for …We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …, hospitalizations, labor force participation and mortality for Swedes born between 1946 and 1957. Individual level data allow us to … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …

potential mechanisms, including health behaviors, lifestyles, earnings, work conditions, and health at the start of the risk … for women. We discuss the implications for policies aimed at improving health and longevity and reducing health inequality …

bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … (ADL) and in term of mortality. Our results suggest that besides aging, there are other important factors contributing to …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …

psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …