positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age … men with negative control beliefs are by a factor of 2.7 more likely to die after a health shock. The heterogeneous labour …Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of …

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 …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to … persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the … first six waves of the HILDA survey to estimate the joint effect of health status and health shocks on working hours using a …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After … weak effects of childhood health problems on portfolio choice in adulthood. Finally, favorable childhood conditions affect …

's physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas … "normative" life course track supposedly had adverse effects on women's health in West Germany. …Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health …