The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …

problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy change in unemployment insurance rules in …

problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy change in unemployment insurance rules in …

We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …

both mental and physical health. In addition, individuals feel less financially constrained and are more optimistic about …

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about … also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the US. I exploit the booms and busts in the US stock market as a natural … experiment that generated considerable gains and losses in the wealth of stock-holding retirees. Using data from the Health and …

-life health among older adults aged over 50 from the Indonesian Family Life Survey. We first document the extent of height … significant covariate for health and mortality of older adults, independent of baseline height …

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about … also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the US. I exploit the booms and busts in the US stock market as a natural … experiment that generated considerable gains and losses in the wealth of stock-holding retirees.Using data from the Health and …