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There is a persistent association between health and portfolio choice, but hardly anything is known about the … longitudinal data to take into account and explain unobserved heterogeneity in the association between health and portfolio choice …
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pollution, crime, and noise on self-assessed health, presence of chronic conditions and limitations in daily activities. We … to health, through instrumental variable methods and several endogeneity tests. The main novelty is the sound estimation … of the neighborhood effect on health using observational data, which has the advantage of providing general results that …
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This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the ¯rst three waves of …
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This paper presents an overview of microsimulation as a method to evaluate health and health care policies and … FEM used to simulate lifecycle health trajectories and associated health care costs under competing policy scenarios to …
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Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … lower income groups. Inequality analysis reveals that while the distribution of health shocks is more concentrated among …, both health shocks and early retirement are more concentrated among those with low incomes. We use comparable longitudinal …
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We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health …. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …
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Home equity has a strong impact on individual health. In UK household panel data home equity lowers the likelihood of … home owners exhibiting a broad range of medical conditions. This is due to increased use of private health care, reduced … hours of work and increased exercise. Home equity, unlike income, does not increase risky health behaviours such as smoking …
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We consider the interaction between the risk of unemployment, random house prices, consumption and savings. A critical decision is that of refinancing house purchase, up to 100% mortgages are possible. There is also a fixed transaction cost of refinancing. In a CARA framework we derive the value...
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The interaction between housing wealth, the financial portfolio of the consumer and consumption is a live issue. Life cycle models with closed form solutions under uncertainty are hard to find. In this paper we find analytical solutions for the effects of house price uncertainty and employment...
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focus on propensity score matching – and their usefulness for the particular case of health programme evaluation. The … treatments settings is illustrated using the example of a health programme implemented with different levels of population …
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