We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health … behaviors of older adults, using data from eight waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Our main finding is that … bequests do not have substantial effects on health, although some improvements in quality-of-life are possible. This absence …

foster improvements in retirees’ health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily … or cause a deterioration of retirees’ health, or eventually have no effect on it at all. …

We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health … behaviors of older adults, using data from eight waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Our main finding is that … bequests do not have substantial effects on health, although some improvements in quality-of-life are possible. This absence …

show that the effect on take-up is not entirely due to an income channel, and that the effect on health is mainly driven by …

depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The analysis on health outcomes shows that the program reduces the likelihood …