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What drives the association between health and portfolio choice?

Kronenberg, C.; van Kippersluis, H.; Rohde, K.I.M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2014

There is a persistent association between health and portfolio choice, but hardly anything is known about the underlying sources of heterogeneity: what makes healthier individuals hold more risky assets? This paper uses rich Dutch longitudinal data to take into account and explain unobserved...

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Persistence in health limitations: a European comparative analysis

Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

This paper investigates the persistence in health limitations for individuals within the member states of the European Union. We use the full 8 waves of data available in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to explore the relative contributions of state dependence, unobserved...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328371

Disentangling the relationship between health and income

Jones, Andrew M; Wildman, John - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2005

The nature of the relationship between health and income is still not clearly defined. It is believed that personal income affects health but this may not be the end of the story. Income may also play its part through issues of relativity and deprivation. It may even be possible that these...

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Health care utilisation in Europe: new evidence from the ECHP

Teresa Bago d’Uva; Jones, Andrew M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2006

The ECHP is used to analyse the utilisation of health care in Europe. We estimate a new latent class hurdle model for panel data and compare it with the latent class NegBin model and the standard hurdle model. Latent class specifications outperform the standard hurdle model but the latent class...

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Measurement of horizontal inequity in health care utilisation using European Panel data

Teresa Bago d’Uva; Jones, Andrew M.; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of dental insurance on utilization of general dentist services by adult US population aged from 25 to 64 years. Our econometric framework accommdates endogeneity of insurance and the ordered nature of the measure of dental utilization. The study finds strong...

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Is fiscal decentralization good for your health? Evidence from a panel of OECD countries

Jiménez-Rubio, D - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2010

In this study I use improved data of fiscal decentralization to re-examine the hypothesis that shifts towards more fiscal decentralization would be accompanied by improvements in population health on a panel of 19 OECD countries. The advantage of the new measure of decentralization is that it...

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Difference in Differences for Stayers and Movers with a Time-Varying QualiÂ…cation

Lee, M.; Kim, Y. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013

When a treatment in difference in differences (DD) is applied to a group of individuals with a time-constant qualifiÂ…cation/eligibility such as gender or race, there is no issue of choosing to be (un-)treated. But if the qualiÂ…fication is time-varying, then the individuals may alter...

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Lose Weight for Money Only if Over-Weight: Marginal Integration for Semi-Linear Panel Models

K, Kan; M, Lee - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009

Body mass index (BMI), weight(kg)/ height(m)2, is a widely used measure for obesity in medical science. In economics, there appeared studies (e.g., Cawley (2004) and Burkhauser and Cawley (2008)) showing that BMI has a negative (or no) effect on wage. But BMI is a tightly specified function of...

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Socioeconomic inequalities in health: a comparative longitudinal analysis using the European Community Household Panel

Quevedo, Cristina Hernández; Jones, Andrew M; … - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2005

limitations for the full 8 waves of available data. Short-run and long-run concentration indices together with mobility and health … existence of “pro-rich” inequality in health across Member States in both the short-term and the long-term, with health …, the greater is the measure of income-related health inequality. The ranking of countries by long-run inequalities differs …

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Panel data analysis of dentists’ activity under global budgeting in the presence of activityrelated non-response

Lee, Miaw-Chwen; Jones, Andrew M - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2005

This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of global budgeting on dentists’ activity in Taiwan using a unique and rich panel dataset that was created specifically for the task. The panel data for 4424 dentists over 48 months, January 1997 to December 2000, was drawn from the BNHI’s...

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