Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe … (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We … find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of …

This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in … the impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) on the health of older adults to perform a meta-analysis and discuss … how various circumstances may coalesce and manifest in shaping long-term health …

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the … first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one …

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and …

This study investigates the short-term mortality effects of two age-based restrictions on legal access to alcohol in … alcohol has, at most, a minor impact on drunk driving and mortality at age 16 and 18 years. This study thus provides fresh …

health, economics, and policy development. The chapter concludes with a selection of adaptable strategies that countries …

information about preferences and subjective mortality expectations from the Health and Retirement Study merged with detailed …This study investigates how subjective mortality expectations and heterogeneity in time and risk preferences affect the … choices vary with subjective mortality rates in a way that is consistent with the life cycle model; 2) different answers to …

As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health …, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting communities, and have a high incidence of health care utilization. Moreover …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …

, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with … for the rise in mortality. While increases at a higher rate compared to overall mortality, alcohol-related mortality … explains a relatively small part of total mortality rise …