collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being. …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

In this article, we address the long-run associations between childhood shocks and health in late adulthood. Applying a …, dispossession, or hunger and health outcomes after 50 years of age. Having lived in a children’s home, in a foster family, or having … correlations between shocks and later health into a priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks show opposite relations …

more difficult than men to access health care. This study examines factors that may constrain older persons in Southeast … Asia from meeting their health-care needs when sick. Our analysis of household survey data from Cambodia, the Philippines …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which …