with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness … insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden s social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness … insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …