The COVID-19 pandemic posed a major threat to the well-being of older Europeans. Its economic and social effects, however, varied across countries. This multidisciplinary book presents the first results of analyses that combined the renowned longitudinal database of SHARE with new data from two...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors -- Contributors -- 1. A spotlight on health and life courses in Europe using SHARE Waves 6 and 7 / Börsch-Supan, Axel / Bristle, Johanna / Andersen-Ranberg, Karen / Brugiavini, Agar / Jusot, Florence / Litwin, Howard / Weber, Guglielmo -- Part I. Personality...

In the large empirical literature that investigates the causal effects of education on outcomes such as health, wages and crime, it is customary to measure education with years of schooling, and to identify these effects using the exogenous variation provided by school reforms increasing...

We investigate how individual equity prices react to stock specific expected jump components. We find that a portfolio buying stocks with negative expected jump component and selling stocks with positive expected jump component earns significant returns, equal to 51 basis points per month.The...