strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when …

contrast, children whose parents moved to a different rural village do not appear to experience any health advantage and those …

We construct a unified objective measure of health status: the frailty index, defined as the cumulative sum of all … adverse health indicators observed for an individual. First, we show that the frailty index has several advantages over self …-reported health status, particularly when studying health dynamics. Then we estimate a stochastic process for frailty dynamics over …

health and social care. This project explored the opinions of a sample of UK decision-makers on the relevance of wellbeing …) for resource allocation decisions within health and social care. Through these discussions we draw out the perceived … than just measuring health. Three focus groups were conducted: with members of the National Institute for Health and Care …