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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

van Kippersluis, Hans; O'Donnell, Owen; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...

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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

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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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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