-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …

-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On … either employment or income. The distribution of ill-health contributes to income inequality: a health shock is both more …

> 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 the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the … measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health … heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not China) and to increase those by income. But …

This discussion paper resulted in an article in the <I>Journal of Health Economics</I> (2013). Volume 32, pages 88 …-105.<P> Explanations of growth in health expenditures have restricted attention to the mean. We explain change throughout the … data on actual health expenditures linked to hospital discharge and mortality registers. Full distribution decomposition …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

, 639–664.<P> 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 from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we …

health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving interpersonal comparability of … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …

Distribution', volume 2B, North Holland, Elsevier, chapter 18, 143 pages.<P> We examine the relationship between income and health … with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income … inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health …