on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely …-economic, biological and health data from over 75k individuals aged between 18 and 63. We conclude that women born in adverse economic …

The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this … the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures collected in 2006 and 2008. We use a variety of econometric methods … that business closures lead to worse health outcomes. We also find no evidence that biomarker health measures predict …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …

This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is … relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach …

). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …

We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that … estimate that between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the … previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling correlations in …