Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative … data on drug prescriptions to infer information about the health status of individuals and link it labor market outcomes …. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …

Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms …. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven … that they reduce mortality rates. A general health policy agenda in relation to recessions remains ambiguous due to the …

Drawing upon theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links occupational characteristics to health …, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the physical and mental health consequences of self … self-employment (opportunity entrepreneurship) lead to health enhancements for entrepreneurs with and without employees …

effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide evidence that this is likely caused by changes towards adverse health … behaviours as a reaction to stress. Investigating the possible protective effects of mental health support, I find that it can … associated with mental health care. Finally, I show that my results are robust to specific departure of my identifying …

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 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

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 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …