The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …

This paper analyzes the role of health for refugees' integration into host societies' labor markets. We exploit the … quasi-random dispersal policies of refugees across regions in Germany to analyze the causal effect of health on employment …. Based on regional and temporal heterogeneity in a policy adoption that provided earlier access to health care services …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

Recent work has found that retirement may lead to improvements in health, although the literature has not yet reached a … differences between studies. The first goal of this paper is to estimate the causal impact of retirement on self-reported health … retirement ages, this paper then estimates how retirement causally affects health and health-related behaviors. We find, in all …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

gender-specific differences in health, i.e. the so-called "gender health gap", in the same age group. Self-assessed general … health in 2013 reveals no significant differences between men and women in the countries studied. However, gender … the sexes. Although the study does not measure causal relationships between income and health, the results indicate that …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in- Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multidimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …