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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen A. - 2010

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...

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A Bit of Salt a Trace of Life - Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …

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Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes

Atella, Vincenzo; Di Porto, Edoardo; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2020

This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers in Italy...

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Voluntary Participation and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in a Funded Pension System

Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward; Vos, Siert J. - 2011

We explore the feasibility of a funded pension system with intergenerational risk sharing when participation in the system is voluntary. Typically, the willingness of the young to participate depends on their belief about the future young's willingness to do so. We characterise equilibria with...

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Participation Constraints in Pension Systems

Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward - 2013

We explore voluntary participation in pension arrangements. Individuals only participate when participation is more attractive than autarky. The bene??it of participation is that risks can be shared with future generations. We apply our analysis to a pay-as-you-go system, a funded system without...

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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2006

opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

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Effects of Health on Own and Spousal Employment and Income using Acute Hospital Admissions

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; van Kippersluis, Hans; O'Donnell, Owen - 2011

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ … across the income distribution? And are there spillover effects on the employment and income of the spouse? We use matching …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On …

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Every crisis has a silver lining? Unravelling the pro-cyclical pattern of health inequalities by income

Coveney, Max; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; van Doorslaer, Eddy; … - 2018

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we decompose …

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d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010

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