… to examine the short-term dynamics of the effects health shocks have on household health
and nonhealth spending and income by the elderly. The health shocks we study are the …

… Using the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in … spending when a family member
experiences a health shock. Applying an event study design, we document that health shocks …

… children, and family spending on mental health services. The … impact of economic shocks
on the out-of-pocket health care burden … the dynamic, within family change in such spending in …

… rapidly, spending drops by … spending and the pandemic shock is strongly depending on
the underlying regime. In almost all cases, we can reject the null hypothesis of equal spending …

Health expenditures as a share of GDP in the United States have more than tripled over the
past half-century. A common conjecture is that this is a consequence of rising income. We …

… 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 …

… a health production function that allows for the impact of shocks. … dynamic context, it is
necessary to note that the production of current health is a function of past health (and thus shocks …

… Medicine is technologically dynamic but fiscally inertial. Major change in the health sector
takes time. Responses to macroeconomic shocks are subject to lags of varying lengths, from …

… of durable spending to economic shocks is … bile spending to identified wealth shocks strongly
interacts with local economic conditions: the response of auto spending to wealth shocks is …

… relationship between heightened health awareness amid the … a transformative shock, shaping
both health awareness and … without health insurance compared to households with health …