This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … wide range of health behaviors (e.g. alcohol and tobacco consumption, physical activity, diet and sleep) as potential … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …

categories have evolved over time. Statistics Canada's General Social Survey (GSS) and Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS …

than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there … relationships between socio-economic status and health. We describe the approach of testing for the absence of causal channels …, and we repeat their analysis using the full range of data that have become available in the Health and Retirement Study …

This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression … characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship are argued to be important determinants. The results show that health indicators …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify … effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in …

. We estimate TFP using a variant of augmented Solow growth model in which health capital is one of the factors of …

of their actual health), and procrastination tendencies, which are especially likely with tasks that are aversive (e …-perceptions of one's health condition and procrastination. …

We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on … ignored by previous contributions. Indeed, as the environmental tax improves the health profile over the life-cycle, it …