follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …

follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …

follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …

's health shock (i.e., the occurrence of a severe disease) can influence own expectations about the probability of falling ill …The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a spouse's health shock on own risk attitudes. A spouse …, a health shock may act as a wake-up call to enjoy life and may increase risk willingness. Using German Socio Economic …

Do people form correct expectations about the impact of retirement on their health? This paper looks at unexpected … health shocks that hit people after they retire. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia … survey (waves 2001-2014), we construct measures of unexpected health shocks for each year, using information on respondents …

of retirement after their husbands experience a work-limiting health shock. Results suggest that this increased …This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health … the effect spousal health shocks have on the various labor market outcomes examined here, which suggests an important role …

outcomes. Using the health shock as an instrumental variable shows that the onset of a disability at age 25 causally reduces … model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an …

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 …