… literature on measuring the economic impacts of health shocks on households. Key … )
health spending, labour supply responses and non-medical consumption) of health shocks and …

Some observers have concluded that poor children suffer from ‘‘double jeopardy’’in that they
are both more likely to suffer negative health shocks and less likely to be able to recover …

… health behaviors that are low-cost but also difficult to adopt. We show that exogenous health
shocks … and provide long-lasting effects on health outcomes. Specifically, we exploit the …

… in the impact of health shocks by using register-… health shocks. Our results suggest major
heterogeneity in the effects, where a given health shock has a greater relative negative impact …

… Evidence on the differential impacts across different household types of health shocks on
earned … This paper presents direct evidence on the impacts of health shocks on consumption, …

… health insurance. This paper examines the relationship between health shocks, insurance
status and health-… income loss and out-of-pocket health expenditure. The study uses a unique …

… impact of health shocks on working-age adults in Vietnam during 2004–2008, using a fixed
effects specification. Health shocks … While this study examines the impact of health shocks …

… We investigate the impact of health on working hours. This is … levels of health status, or
because of new health shocks, is … joint effect of health status and health shocks on working hours. …

… This paper assesses the welfare impacts of health shocks … effect Poisson regression to
assess impact of severe illness, … Out-of-pocket health spending increased significantly among …

… 2 Second, we explore the health impacts of health shocks. Analyses of nonhealth … We find
that health shocks are more common than other shocks and (in contrast to nonhealth shocks) …