Health Shocks

Health shocks, basic medical insurance and common prosperity

The heterogeneity analysis shows that health shocks have a stronger negative effect on the common prosperity of low-income groups than that of high-income ones.

Economic impacts of health shocks on households in low and ...

This paper reviews recent empirical literature on measuring the economic impacts of health shocks on households.

The consequences of health shocks on households: Evidence from ...

A health shock reduces household income and net asset and raises the likelihood of poverty by 2.8 percentage points.

Long Term and Spillover Effects of Health Shocks on Employment ...

An acute hospital admission lowers the employment probability by seven percentage points and results in a five percent loss of personal income two years after ...

The economic consequences of health shocks (English)

While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence.

Health Shocks, Health Insurance, Human Capital, and the Dynamics ...

Our model features endogenous wage formation via human capital accumulation, employer-sponsored health insurance, and means-tested social ...

Impact of health shocks on household consumption structure

This research developed a practical framework to assess the influence of health shocks on family spending patterns, focusing on health shortfalls.

Working Paper : Health Shocks and Coping Strategies - UNU-WIDER

The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope ...

Health shocks and risk aversion - ScienceDirect.com

We find that a health shock increases individual risk aversion. This effects persists for at least four years after the health shock.

Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil | NBER

How responsive to health shocks are healthcare systems in the developing world? Developing countries are known to have both lower levels of ...

Health shocks, consumption fluctuations, and optimal insurance

A change in income only affects their consumption of necessities (food, utilities and car maintenance), while a change in health affects both ...

Health Shocks and the Evolution of Earnings over the Life-Cycle

These health shocks determine medical expenditures and sick days suffered by workers. Finally, individuals make consumption/savings decisions. At the start of ...

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records by Itzik Fadlon and Torben Heien Nielsen.

Health shocks and the added worker effect: a life cycle approach

The second effect refers to the potential negative impact of a health shock on the affected individual's labor supply and/or the increase in health-care ...

BMJ Collection highlights research priorities for future health shocks

This set of peer reviewed analysis articles and opinion pieces address post-covid priorities for the research community, to help the UK better prepare for and ...

Are health shocks different ? evidence from a multi-shock survey in ...

In Laos health shocks are more common than most other shocks and more concentrated among the poor. They tend to be more idiosyncratic than non-health shocks ...

Health shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: are the poor and uninsured ...

The estimates of vulnerability show that about 39.04%, 33.69%, and 69.03% of households are vulnerable to poverty, in Burkina Faso, Niger, and Togo ...

Health shocks and vulnerability to poverty in Congo - Nature

The objective of this study is to estimate vulnerability to poverty and analyse the factors that lead to a loss of well-being after a health shock in Congo.

How Work-Limiting Health Shocks Affect Employment and Income

Many workers who experience a new health shock or develop a new functional limitation can manage their condition and continue working.

Health Shocks, Social Insurance, and Firms | IZA

Workers hit by a health shock at high-quality firms are less likely to take up disability insurance or exit the labor force than those at low-quality firms.