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 …

macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase … a 0.4 percent rise in total mortality and 0.4, 1.1, 1.8, 2.1 and 0.8 percent increases in deaths from cardiovascular … physical health. …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

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

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … distribution. We find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes …

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies … showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis … men from 1993 to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on …

biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U …

making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …