experiencing a depressive episode report less willingness to take risks in general, but more willingness to take health risks, for …

experiencing a depressive episode report less willingness to take risks in general, but more willingness to take health risks, for …

In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …: depressed individuals are predicted to save less, invest less in their health, consume more unhealthy goods, and exercise less …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life … ; developmental origins ; retirement ; health ; long-run effects ; dementia …

. -- Cognitive functioning ; business cycle ; bereavement ; developmental origins ; retirement ; health ; long-run effects ; pension …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely … cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in adulthood, by gender. We operationalize CVD risk by constructing the Systematic COronary Risk …-economic, biological and health data from over 75k individuals aged between 18 and 63. We conclude that women born in adverse economic …

We explore the effects of retirement on both physical and mental ill-health and whether these change in the presence of … relationship between retirement and health and a difference-in-differences approach combined with matching to investigate whether … the health effects of retirement are affected by the Great Recession. We estimate these models on data drawn from the …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …