positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age … men with negative control beliefs are by a factor of 2.7 more likely to die after a health shock. The heterogeneous labour …Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of …

Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …

self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical … households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their …Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household …