This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European … countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time … regarding health, market work, and leisure in the US. However, in contrast to the large positive correlation between health and …

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

substitutability of family labor inputs. We show how data on time allocations, health shocks and corresponding treatment choices can be …-specific complementarities. -- Intra-household allocation ; health shocks ; complementarity …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated …

health and longevity have not been uniform across the population. To this end, we develop a dynamic, structural life cycle … model of heterogeneous agents who face health, mortality and income risk. We consider the following policy reform measures …

health status reduce the LFP of older people in Thailand. Furthermore, while health status is significant across all analyses …

) health improvement using administrative data on all Dutch disability benefit applicants. We compare those below the DI … eligibility threshold with those above and find that disincentives significantly reduce work resumption after health improves …

strategy exploits unexpected health shocks and combines matching with individual fixed effects in a generalized difference …-in-differences framework to control for observable and unobservable heterogeneity. While the effect of spousal health shocks on labor supply is … financial consequences of such health shocks are considerable …