conditions seem to have been important driving forces during the entire period. In contrast changes in health do not seem to … share of the population reporting ill health or disability or to the number claiming benefits. We also find evidence that …

correlated patterns of ill-health in later life. In the absence of long-term prospective data on couples, we use long …-range recall data from the pan-European SHARELife survey and estimate a latent variable model of the health states of marital … partners in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. We find strong persistence in health states and a strong comorbidity …

) 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 …