This paper addresses the interplay between health and labor market behavior in the later part of the working life. We … use the longitudinal Health and Retirement Survey to analyze the dynamic relationship between health and alternative labor … how the timing of health shocks affects labor force behavior. Controlling for lagged values of health, poor …

changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …

Individual cognitive functioning declines over time. We seek to understand how adverse physical health shocks in older … Continental Europe we find evidence that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline in cognitive functioning. This … robust finding holds in all regions representing different health insurance systems and seems to be independent of underlying …