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 …

happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits …, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

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 …

Empirical evidence from several countries reveals that self-rated health is a valid predictor of mortality. So far … the relationship between self-rated health and mortality for Germany. In addition the GSOEP data enable an exploration of …

Background: Studies from several countries have shown that self-rated health is an independent predictor of mortality … individuals and (ii) changes in self-rated health, as predictors of mortality for Germany. Methods: A sub-sample of 3 … in self-rated health on predictions of mortality. Results: We find that, while currently self-rated health is shown to be …

Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the … other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other … socio-economic characteristics of the local environment on individual health. It is therefore of interest to the public …