Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide evidence that this is likely caused by changes towards adverse health …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … 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 …

examining whether and how levels of and changes in life satisfaction prospectively predict mortality hazards and delineate the … role of contributing factors, including health, perceived control, and social orientation. To do so, we applied shared … showed that lower levels and steeper declines of life satisfaction each uniquely predicted higher mortality risks. Results …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population …, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

A robust relationship between subjective well-being and mortality has been established in the literature. While this … with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong …