implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … health of past populations therefore originated in part in the first days of life." …

I investigate how the relationship between health status and retirement among older men has changed since 1900 using … weight adjusted for height or Body Mass Index (BMI) as a proxy for health. I find that both in 1900 and in 1985-1991 the …, suggesting that health is now less important to the retirement decision than in the past. The difference in the relative risk of …

rules create a natural experiment to identify the effects of pensions and health on labor supply. Pensions exerted a large …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of … differences in the stock of health capital across families and thus across ethnic, racial and social groups. I study how a …

-run health follow-ups of the interaction between stress and social networks in a human population in which both stress and social …

mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find frailer survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely …