Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical … health challenges that continue post-migration. Better understanding these challenges will help health policy makers and …

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 …

We analyze the causal effect of retirement on mental health, exploiting differences in retirement eligibility ages … across countries and over time using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We estimate not only … mental health distribution. We find unequally distributed protective effects of retirement on mental health. These gains are …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a spouse's health shock on own risk attitudes. A spouse …'s health shock (i.e., the occurrence of a severe disease) can influence own expectations about the probability of falling ill …, a health shock may act as a wake-up call to enjoy life and may increase risk willingness. Using German Socio Economic …

health behaviors. This effect is robust to separate estimations for boys and girls and to the control variables used. The …

This paper combines German claims and survey data to provide a comprehensive picture of the health dynamics surrounding … the transition into motherhood. Event-study estimates reveal good mental health around birth, but declines afterward, as …

Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This … robust finding holds in all regions representing different health insurance systems and seems to be independent of underlying …

Studies on the effect of ageing on health care expenditures (HCE) have revealed the importance of controlling for time … confirmed. -- Health care expenditure ; proximity to death ; ageing ; "red herring" hypothesis …