This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

percent of their annual income. The paper further shows that the negative income shock had no impact on the health of …This paper provides novel evidence on the labor supply response to negative income shocks in retirement, exploiting an … institutional feature that caused differential and unexpected income losses among otherwise identical individuals in a sharp …

effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …

effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …

entitlement programs. Existing rules and escalating health care costs are expected to lead to fiscal pressures and to pose … retirees. It also examines how the retirement and health care of older citizens might be financed, and measures the potential …

how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental … health is positively associated with own and spousal income. However, it is negatively linked to the wife's relative income …. Crossing the threshold where the wife starts earning more increases the likelihood of a mental health diagnosis by 8-12 per …

During the past decade there has been a growing opinion of including more than an income perspective in the examination … using household indicators on expenditures, educational level, health status and land holdings. The purpose is to assess …

model of heterogeneous agents who face health, mortality and income risk. We consider the following policy reform measures … health and longevity have not been uniform across the population. To this end, we develop a dynamic, structural life cycle …: (1) increasing the early access age to pensions, (2) raising income taxes, (3) lowering pension benefits and (4) lowering …