The impact of financial insecurity on self-reported health: Europe in cross-national perspective Blázquez, Maite Moro Egido, Ana Isabel Self-assessed health Financial insecurity Cross country differences Prospect theory Loss aversion Scarring and anticipation effects Multilevel techniques Supplementary material related to this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.038. Using the EU-SILC 2008 module on over-indebtedness and financial exclusion, this paper analyses how perceived future-orientated economic insecurity alters individual self-assessed health (SAH), once controlling for past and current financial situation in a range of European countries. Those effects differ by gender and by country. Our results also suggest that country characteristics explain a larger part of the unknown variability of individual levels of SAH than individual-household characteristics. Thus, our findings might be of help in designing the most effective policies intended to alleviate the individual welfare costs of perceived financial insecurity provoked by upcoming business-cycle downturns. 2023-12-07T09:08:50Z 2023-12-07T09:08:50Z 2023-10-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/article M. Blázquez and A.I. Moro-Egido. The impact of financial insecurity on self-reported health: Europe in cross-national perspective. Economic Analysis and Policy 80 (2023) 1123–1137 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.038] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/86061 10.1016/j.eap.2023.09.038 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier