propensities. We also find that poor health is an important determinant of the drawdown of non-annuity wealth … Social Security benefits for support. Whether persons reach late-life with positive non-annuity wealth depends importantly on … health, which is quite persistent over the life-time. Persons in poor health in old age have a higher …

reductions in Social Security benefits impact individual health and well-being is not well understood. Using data from a … elderly health outcomes, including cognitive function, depression, disability and self-rated health. Prior literature has … documented a positive association between income and health. However, this association may reflect unmeasured confounders that …

this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal case-study of the link between wealth … collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people …

Individuals' socioeconomic status (SES) is positively correlated with their health status. While the existence of this … insights on the causal structure of the health-SES nexus. We introduce some methodological refinements and integrate … retrospective survey data on early childhood circumstances into this framework. We confirm that childhood health has lasting …