child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …

This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals … different types of diagnoses. Our estimates are precise enough to rule out large effects of income inequality on health …

of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general …This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …

health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi …-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are … mainly driven by males and individuals with bad initial health conditions and are largest for males with poor health. In …

health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general …This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I …

challenges for the pension system. However, a prolonged working life impacts a person’s health. Detailed data from the statutory … health insurance companies shows that abolishing the "Rente für Frauen" (women’s pension) in 1999, which allowed women to … retire at 60, resulted in negative health effects. Women who were affected by the reform and could not retire until age 63 …

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 …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …