, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health …

comparisons for health perception in the general population. The results suggest that upward comparisons are more important than …This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous … research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences …

In 2004, the German Social Health Insurance introduced a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. I … combine a structural model of health care demand and a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the effect of that …

This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual's partner on subjective well …

. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for …