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Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
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mortality risk to higher ages will not affect lifetime health care expenditures as death occurs only once in every life. We … attempt to take this effect into account when we calculate the demographic impact on health care expenditures in Germany. From … life and for survivors, which we apply to the projections of the age structure and mortality rates for the German …
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Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...
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This paper presents two new tools for the identification of faking interviewers in surveys. One method is based on Benford's Law, and the other exploits the empirical observation that fakers most often produce answers with less variability than could be expected from the whole survey. We focus...
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