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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 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...
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Pension incentives, labor supply and heterogenous pension systems
Holen, Dag S. - 2008
self against the income loss of a bad event, the bad event is more likely to happen. Comparing register data from disabled … and non-disabled individuals shows that being disabled increases income in the last year before the time of disablement …. Further, more generous pension systems increase pre-disablement income even more. …
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Are Urban Children really healthier?
van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
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