also may experience lost health insurance, and therefore higher financial barriers to health care, through age 65, when … Medicare becomes available. All of these experiences could contribute to weaker long-term health outcomes. To examine these … explore potential mechanisms for this health effect. Our results indicate that experiencing a recession in one's late 50s …

expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate a structural model of household retirement and …

The relationship between unemployment and health continues to absorb social scientists. The primary reason is the … potential significance of an association. If a substantial deterioration in aggregate health is related to economic downturns …

rates. This paper examines the short- to medium-term changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization … longitudinal data on a wide variety of health-related measures and outcomes, we show that job loss results in worse self …-reported health, including mental health, but is not associated with statistically significant increases in a variety of specific …

This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

, family status, and employment. The paper presents an aggregate time-series analysis of unemployment and infant health that … of low-birthweight births is the health outcome. Because we are able to control for the race-specific percentage of women … proxy for maternal stress enters the production function as one among a set of well-defined health Inputs. Third, because a …