psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …

happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits …, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

A robust relationship between subjective well-being and mortality has been established in the literature. While this … with twelve concrete health impairments. Specifically, we analyze whether subjective well-being predicts longer survival in … decrease survival in our sample, even controlling for the severity of health problems. But our results cast doubt on strong …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population …, mortality, longevity, lifecourses and morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU countries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

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 process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population …, mortality, longevity, lifecourses anf morbidity. Conventionally measured ageing can be caused by low fertility and longer lives … and EU contries have experienced both. We emphasise the considerable compression of mortality that has taken place and …

Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents’ objective health status. On the … other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other … socio-economic characteristics of the local environment on individual health. It is therefore of interest to the public …