waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …

-being (SWB) of individuals over 60 years of age. Our research is based on the results of the 5th wave of the World Value Survey … research demonstrate that the strongest predictors of SWB later in life are satisfaction with one’s financial state, health …

informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired …, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of providing informal care to one's partner on the caregiver's health … using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We exploit the panel structure of the data …

between religion and health. The topic is particularly germane for the health of women and of the elderly, who are much more … likely to be religious. In this paper, I use data from the Gallup World Poll to study the within and between country … relationships between religiosity, age, and gender, as well as the effects of religiosity on a range of health measures and health …