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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

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Health and Income across the Life Cycle and Generations in Europe

Kippersluis, Hans van; Ourti, Tom van; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

An age-cohort decomposition applied to panel data identifies how the mean, overall inequality and income-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of...

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Socioeconomic Differences in Health over the Life Cycle in an Egalitarian Country

Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Social Science & Medicine' (2010). Volume 70, issue 3, pages 428-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the multidimensional and dynamic nature of the variables, the causal...</p>

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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment

Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung...

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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, A. Lans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...

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The Political Origin of Pension Funding

Perotti, Enrico; Schwienbacher, Armin - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

The paper seeks to explain the huge cross country variation in private pension funding,shaped by historical choice made when universal pension systems were created after theGreat Depression. According to Perotti and von Thadden (2006), large inflationaryshocks due to war damage devastated middle...

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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality - Evidence from Targeted Incentives to retire early

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the Netherlands. Among the older workers we focus on, a group of civil servants became eligible for retirement...

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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

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HIV/AIDS, Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Choice

Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …

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Inequity in the Face of Death

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Schokkaert, Erik; Ourti, Tom Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

We apply the theory of inequality in opportunity to measure inequity in mortality. Ourempirical work is based on a rich … dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that … distinguishing between differentchannels via which mortality is affected is necessary to test the sensitivity of the results …

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