no correlation between health and employment trends. Health does not seem to be a main driver in the decision whether to …English Abstract We use SHARE data from eight European countries to measure the evolution of health of middle …-aged individuals over time. In contrast to earlier findings in Europe, we observe a stalling health trend for individuals of later year …

Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security … expenditures in many countries. The enrolment rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US … even after controlling for differences in the demographic structure and health status these differences remain. In turn …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …

Self-rated health (SRH) is a common health measurement in international research. Yet different versions of this item … health variables. Data were drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), comprising information … versions. Information was collected on basic demographics and health variables including chronic diseases, symptoms, functional …

This paper investigates the interplay of socioeconomic and medical determinants of health care utilization among … elderly Europeans from ten countries. Using novel strictly comparable cross-national data from the Survey of Health, Ageing … individual socioeconomic status and health determine health care utilization in different institutional settings.Our flexible …

aims to provide a compact overview of current social science research in three major domains of older people's life: health …, families, and work. Moreover, we briefly discuss some theoretical issues and introduce the Survey of Health, Ageing, and …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West … behavior. Overall, our estimates suggest significant non-monetary returns to education with respect to health outcomes and not … necessarily with respect to health-related behavior …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …