Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or … well as controls for potential endogeneity in the health-SES relationship. Using data from German Socio Economic Panel, we … find that the health-SES relationship does vary across the life cycle and that endogeneity is an important influence on the …

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or … well as controls for potential endogeneity in the health-SES relationship. Using data from German Socio Economic Panel, we … find that the health-SES relationship does vary across the life cycle and that endogeneity is an important influence on the …

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or … well as controls for potential endogeneity in the health-SES relationship. Using data from German Socio Economic Panel, we … find that the health-SES relationship does vary across the life cycle and that endogeneity is an important influence on the …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …