We study how a negative labor market shock like job loss generates health spillovers in couples. Using administrative … data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document that male job displacement increases … the mortality risk for both the man and his partner. For every 10,000 displaced men, there are 27 additional deaths over a …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their … elevated health risks in later life led to a growing interest into whether fetal exposure to other – less severe - diseases … could cause health problems as well. Epidemiological studies of the fetal origins of later life health that followed found …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …

of shorter workweeks on mortality using full population register data, exploiting a nationwide policy in Sweden that …Despite the importance of regulating working hours for workers' health and maintaining labour productivity, the … event-study models, we show that lower working hours decreased mortality by around 15% over the first six years. We identify …

This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long … peak mortality rates among primary-aged individuals. However, our long-run analysis of approximately 100,000 affected …

Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these … understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects …