This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched injured and non-injured workers …, these health shocks (predominantly impairments in the musculoskeletal system) are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed …

Estimates are reported of the consequences of health on participation in the labor force of elderly men and women in … Taiwan from 1989 to 1996. Three survey indicators of individual health are examined, and two are estimated by instrumental … variables (IV), using as instruments parent longevity, birthplace, and childhood conditions. IV estimates of health's effect on …

.8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension … sizes and compelling old parents in bad health to continue working. …

.8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension … sizes and compelling old parents in bad health to continue working. …

Earlier studies of health inequality across European countries have shown intriguing results, in particular with … respect to retirement status as one of the determinants of health inequality. A priori, one would expect that inequality in … health and income would be associated. Theory suggests that health deteriorates with age, in particular for low income groups …

This paper examines the health impact of UK pension reforms that increased women's State Pension age for up to six … years since 2010. Exploiting an 11% increase in employment caused by the reforms, we show that rising the State Pension age … reduces physical and mental health among women from routine-manual occupations. We show robust evidence that a larger increase …

gender-specific differences in health, i.e. the so-called "gender health gap", in the same age group. Self-assessed general … health in 2013 reveals no significant differences between men and women in the countries studied. However, gender … the sexes. Although the study does not measure causal relationships between income and health, the results indicate that …

health, cognitive ability and mortality. The results are all over the place but on average it seems like at retirement mental … health improves, cognitive skills deteriorate and mortality is not affected. However, there is substantial effect … see the forest for the trees and advocate evidence-based retirement policies that take health effects into account …

framework that incorporates differences in consumption, leisure, health, mortality, and wealth. We use longitudinal data from … the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) supplemented with data from the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS … ethnic inequality is larger than suggested by other welfare metrics such as income or consumption. We also find health …