… health shocks in older ages … that health shocks lead to an immediate and persistent decline
in cognitive functioning. This robust finding holds in all regions representing different health …

… health-related threats to economic independence for older … longer term consequences of
health shocks following retirement, … and Retirement Study and include cohort respondents, ages …

… older ages, which means that the hazard of the onset of a disability becomes larger as people
get older. … we consider is a health shock at age 24 and no additional health shocks at later …

… In this paper, we study the effects of different types of health shocks on wealth at old age.
Empirically, it has been well established that old people tend to hold on to their wealth. …

… -- or a negative effect of employment at older ages -- on wellbeing in different … older ages
(due to the increase in the mandatory retirement age for males in 2004) is detrimental to health, …

… a negative income shock during the early-life period on old-age adult … shock that had an
effect on families' income but is not correlated with their characteristics. Moreover, such shocks …

… First, although consistently with the AIP hypothesis, age … reduction reverts back from age
effects, after a health shock. Indeed, the … Documenting the effect of health shocks at older age in …

… place on age is through the minimum age at which we observe an acute health shock in the
… a stronger labour market attachment than older counterparts, conditional on a health shock. …

… in health and facilitate health repair. We illustrate two hypothetical trajectories of health status
dynamics following the health shock … Given that our study subjects are of the ages where …

… To our knowledge we are the first to show that age, life events and health shocks are all
independently important drivers of the changes in self-reported financial risk attitudes that occur …