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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice
Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conduEted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on muitiple price lists developed by...
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484063
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Eliciting Discount Functions when Baseline Consumption changes over Time
Gerber, Anke; Rohde, Kirsten I.M. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
Many empirical studies on intertemporal choice report preference reversals in the sense that a preference between a small reward to be received soon and a larger reward to be received later reverses as both rewards are equally delayed. Such preference reversals are commonly interpreted as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513236
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The Health Penalty of China's Rapid Urbanization
Poel, E. Van de; O'Donnell, O.; Doorslaer, E. Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2009
Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is not obvious. It is, however, highly pertinent to the human welfare consequences of development. This paper uses community and individual level longitudinal data from the China...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137276
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Mapping the Minds of Retirement Planners
Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144426
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Investment, Expectations and Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence on the Relevance of Firm Size
Koetse, Mark J.; Vlist, Arno J. van der; Groot, Henri … - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse two types of investment, i ….e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies, using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty … of general investment spending. Furthermore, expectations and uncertainty have important although different effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450775
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The Effect of Growth and Inequality in Incomes on Health Inequality: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the European Panel
Ourti, Tom Van; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Koolman, Xander - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health inequalities. We show that, theoretically, both aims can be reconciled only under very specific conditions concerning the type of growth and the income responsiveness of health. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209511
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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?
Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016254
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Do Early Life and Contemporaneous Macro-conditions explain Health at Older Ages?
Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - Tinbergen Institute
The paper presents an approach which thoroughly assesses the role of early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions in explaining health at older ages. In particular, we investigate the role of exposure to infectious diseases and economic conditions during infancy and childhood, as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144573
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2012
This is the first study to analyze effects of in utero exposure to the severe Dutch Hunger Winter famine (1944/45) on labor market outcomes and hospitalization. This famine is clearly demarcated in time and space. It was not anticipated. Nutritional conditions were stable before and after the...
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