Chapter 1: Wellbeing Among Older People: An Introduction -- Chapter 2: Empowering the Independence of Older People with Everyday Technologies -- Chapter 3: Investigating the Relationship between Housing Insecurity and Wellbeing -- Chapter 4: Social Support and Wellbeing Among Older Australians...

In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a large shock to the future prospects of the...

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides new evidence on the roles of socioeconomic...