… We investigate the consequences of experiencing an acute health shock, namely the first
onset of myocardial infarction, stroke or cancer, on the labour supply of older workers in Europe…

… at which we observe an acute health shock in the data. While such shocks exclude the very
… We treat the occurrence of an acute health shock as exogenous, conditional on observable …

… until they experience either a first occurrence of a health shock, or a re-occurrence, and …
at which we observe an acute health shock in the data. While such shocks exclude the very …

… to slowly occurring chronic health system strains, such as … health system responses to acute
shocks rather the chronic stresses. Health systems need to provide undisrupted basic health …

… Our primary independent variables distinguish acute health shocks from the onset of … of
nine physical health conditions coded in the PSID. We define an acute health shock as the …

… health stock and graduated acute health shocks … acute health shocks suggesting that acute
changes have more impact than gradual changes as represented by the lagged latent health …

… Following Mexico’s Ministry of Health’s definition of “acute infectious diarrhea” we consider
cases where the primary diagnosis was an intestinal infection as classified by ICD-10 codes …

… First, I examine the effect of health shocks on own labor supply and find that health shocks …
The coefficients indicate that the effect of an acute health event is greatly magnified when it is …

… Abstract: We investigate the consequences of experiencing an acute health shock, namely
the first onset of myocardial infarction, stroke or cancer, on the labour supply of older workers …

… First, we define a health shock as the first onset of an unexpected, acute cardiovascular …
acute diseases, ischaemic heart disease and stroke in particular, that we define as health shocks…