service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the “White Cohort …

We analyze the effect of job insecurity on psychological health. We extend the group of people being affected to … employees who have insecure jobs to account for a broader measure of the mental health consequences of potential unemployment … fear of unemployment substantially decreases the mental health status of employees. Quantile regression results yield …

The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system … causal impact of the program on self-assessed health and hence reveals the sensitivity of this subjective measure to a … perturbation in the insurance system. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the results indicate that after the policy …

empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …

Empirical evidence from the psychology literature suggests that reactions towards health shocks depend strongly on the … heterogeneity in shaping the effects of health shocks on labour supply is theoretically modelled by adopting the Grossman (1972 … locus of control, health shocks and labour market outcomes is that internals have a smaller probability of leaving the …

This study investigates the effect of an economic shock due to crop loss on health outcomes of children in rural Mexico … since 1997 and height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) to measure long-term effects on child health. Since crop losses are exogenous …

This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in …

, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … fixed effects logit, that allows for individual-specific reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and …

health is analyzed. Extending previous studies methodologically to estimate unbiased effects of job satisfaction on … individual health, it can be shown that low job satisfaction affects individual health negatively. In a second step, the … underlying forces of this broad effect are disentangled. The analysis shows that the effects of job satisfaction on health run …