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A Theory of Education and Health
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272580
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A Theory of Education and Health
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242148
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Why the Rich drink more but smoke less: The Impact of Wealth on Health Behaviors
Kippersluis, Hans van; Galama, Titus J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost' (2014). Volume 72, pages 197-220.<P> Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256703
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257432
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Employment effects of different innovation activities microecomometric evidence
Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002368233
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Innovationsverhalten der deutschen Wirtschaft : Hintergrundbericht zur Innovationserhebung 2001
Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert Helmut; Peters, Bettina; … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001768490
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256679