We estimate the direct causal effect of loneliness on a variety of health outcomes using a sample of second …-generation immigrants among older adults drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. In an effort to account for the … suggest that loneliness has a significant impact on health, both mental and physical. Notably, our identification strategy …

health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and speciftc mental health issues, with these … emphasising the pivotal role of attitudes in predicting signiftcant economic and health outcomes, thus opening up a new pathway …

health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and specific mental health issues, with these … emphasising the pivotal role of attitudes in predicting significant economic and health outcomes, thus opening up a new pathway …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 … and household services by older natives may help maintain health through a variety of pathways including reduced …

-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be … strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are correlatedbecause of …

This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying … measures of physical health, cognitive function, and psychological well-being of the rural elderly, and also reduced mortality … pension income in multiple ways: improved nutrition intake, better accessibility to health care, increased informal care …

People may have imperfect information about their health status and thus make suboptimal decisions in insurance …-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated … with no insurance participation. Accurate health information provided through physical examinations induces relatively …