Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

can reduce the negative consequences of a health shock. Our results suggest that neither compulsory education nor …Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This …

alternatives and/or where attributes of alternatives are difficult to understand. We focus on choices about health insurance …, health care, and retirement planning, all of which are very important for the well-being of the elderly. Our review suggests …

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an … extent nearly as large as that of cognition. …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 …

and education act as proxy measures for ability. The risk of premature mortality is estimated using Cox proportional … mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of … mortality than cognitive ability. For middle and high income earners, and individuals with a college education, there are no …

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 …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 …

late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about … differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …