. Workers hit by a health shock at high-quality firms are less likely to take up disability insurance or exit the labor force …We study the role that firms play in social insurance benefit uptake after their workers experience health shocks …-employee administrative data linked to individual-level health records, we find that firm responses to worker health shocks are heterogeneous …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

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 an adverse life event. An adverse health shock is a prominent example for such events. Since relationship breakdown … itself is an extremely stressful experience, partnership may backfire as informal insurance against health risks, if health … Germany. Results from various matching estimators indicate that adverse shocks to mental health substantially increase the …

of an adverse life event. An adverse health shock is a prominent example for such events. Since relationship breakdown … itself is an extremely stressful experience, partnership may backfire as informal insurance against health risks, if health … Germany. Results from various matching estimators indicate that adverse shocks to mental health substantially increase the …

of an adverse life event. An adverse health shock is a prominent example for such events. Since relationship breakdown … itself is an extremely stressful experience, partnership may backfire as informal insurance against health risks, if health … Germany. Results from various matching estimators indicate that adverse shocks to mental health substantially increase the …

This paper reports the first test of how exogenous health shocks impact people's longevity expectations. The analysis … exploits the panel structure of the Health and Retirement Study and tests whether smokers, former smokers and those who never … smoked react differently to serious, smoking related health shocks. The results support the conclusion that smokers have a …