Low insurance take-up in low-income populations is not easily explained by the standard single-period expected utility … whether time preferences explain health insurance behavior of low-income Filipinos. Consistent with theory, those with … model of insurance that overlooks the relevance of time preference when liquidity is constrained. We design field survey …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness … back on saving, and by borrowing. In the short term, informal insurance fills gaps left uncovered by formal insurance but …