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HIV/AIDS Contamination Risk, Savings and the Welfare Effects of Diagnostic Testing

Meijdam, Lex; Lammers, J.; Verbon, H.A.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

This paper models the effect of a HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behavior and studies the welfare effects of testing for HIV. The model specifies a utility function that includes both regular consumption, and medical expenditures. Medical expenditures generate more utility if individuals are HIV...

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The HIV Anticaptory Saving Motive : An Empirical Analysis in South Africa

Kuilen, Gijs van de; Lammers, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

in opposing forces on savings: mortality increases, which reduces savings, and long-term illness risk increases, which … increased mortality decreases the amount of savings and that having a high perception of HIV contamination risk increases …

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Saving Lives at Birth : The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes

Meltem Daysal, N.; Trandafir, M.; van Ewijk, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

substantial reductions in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an …

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Reproductive Health Aid : A Delicate Balancing Act

van Dalen, H.P.; Micevska Scharf, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

In this contribution the authors show that development assistance targeting reproductive health overwhelmingly concentrates on HIV/AIDS at the expense of family planning elements. Data on financial contributions disbursed by governments and private foundations are used as collected by the...

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Did the US Infertility Health Insurance Mandates Affect the Timing of First Birth?

Ohinata, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

From 1977-2001, 15 US states mandated health insurance providers to offer coverage for infertility treatment. Although the majority of the past literature has studied impacts on older women who are likely to seek treatment, this paper proposes that the mandates may have had a wider impact on the...

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Individual Wealth, Reservation Wages and Transitions into Employment

Bloemen, H.G.; Stancanelli, E.G.F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between financial wealth, reservation wages and labour market transitions. According to the theory, higher levels of wealth will result in higher reservation wages and lower employment probabilities. We test for the validity of this assumption by...

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Pension Systems and the Allocation of Macroeconomic Risk

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Uhlig, H.F.H.V.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper explores the optimal risk sharing arrangement between generations in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth.We allow for nonseparable preferences, paying particular attention to the risk aversion of the old as well as overall "life-cycle" risk aversion.We provide a...

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Liquidity Constraints of the Middle Class

Campbell, J.R.; Hercowitz, Zvi - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Among U.S. middle-class households, the marginal propensity to consume is either invariant to household wealth or a U-shaped function thereof. In contrast, precautionary savings models predict that wealth reduces the marginal propensity to consume. We bridge this gap between theory and data with...

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Preferences, Consumption Smoothing and Risk Premia

Lettau, M.; Uhlig, H.F.H.V.S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997

Risk premia in the consumption capital asset pricing model depend on preferences and dividend. We develop a decomposition which allows a separate treatment of both components. We show that preferences alone determine the risk-return tradeoff measured by the Sharpe-ratio. In general, the...

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Retirement Flexibility and Portfolio Choice

Meijdam, Lex; Adema, Y.; Bonenkamp, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper explores the interaction between retirement flexibility and portfolio choice in an overlapping …-generations model. We analyse this interaction both in a partial-equilibrium and general-equilibrium setting. Retirement flexibility is … positive relationship between risk taking and retirement fl exibility is weakened - and under some conditions even turned …

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