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The paper studies the relationship between self-assessed health and subsequent mortality in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Specifically, I examine whether socio-economic characteristics of respondents have an effect on mortality, conditional on self-assessed health. Such conditional effects are shown to exist for various covariates, including age, income, and wealth. These findings question the comparability of self-assessed health across different socio-economic groups.

This research has been funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, CESI (EP/P001173/1). The authors acknowledge additional funding from the Oviedo Efficiency Group (OEG) project FC-15-GRUPIN14-048 (European Regional Development Fund and the Government of the Principality of Asturias, Science, Technology and Innovation Plan 2013–2017) and the project ECO2017-86402-C2- 1-R (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). This work was also supported by Banco Santander through the Campus of International Excellence of the University of Oviedo within the framework of mobility grants.

The effects of voluntary activities on individual well-being have been investigated extensively in the literature. In this study, the relationship between self-assessed health and volunteering is examined from a cross-country perspective by considering respondents' characteristics and other voluntary liabilities, employing the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey. This data set allows us to explore, by implementing an Ordered Probit model, the association of self-assessed health status with charity activities performed specifically by workers. Among the working population in the European Union, our results show that, although volunteering—as well as other unpaid tasks, such as informal helping—are statistically significant, voluntary activities do not seem to be strongly associated with individual perceived health status.