with the observability of ethnicity, and the exposure to situations where there is a risk of discrimination, to produce a …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher immediate risk of new disease onset compared to …We find disease incidence and prevalence are both higher among Americans in age groups 55-64 and 70-80 indicating that … the English. In contrast, age specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries with an even higher risk among the …

heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are found to be less satisfied according to all job satisfaction … also that women are more satisfied with their jobs than men are, regardless of health status. Moreover, the estimations … show that health impaired employees' job satisfaction is affected more than healthy employees' job satisfaction by adverse …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …

AIP preference is to investigate the effect of health shocks on residential mobility to smaller size or value dwellings … people's housing decisions across a wide range of European countries. We estimate the effect of health shocks on the … ratio), considering the potential endogeneity of the health shock to examine the persistence of AIP preferences. Our …

market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the … precise timing of hospitalizations and surgeries, our health shock measures. We use difference-in-difference and event …-study models to compare the differences in post-healthshock labor market and mental health outcomes between spouses and parents …

This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …