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Informal and Formal Care among Single-living Elderly in Europe

Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

The aims of this study were (1) to analyse whether informal care, provided by children or grandchildren to their elderly parents, and formal care are substitutes or complements, and (2) whether this relationship differs across Europe. The analyses were based on the newly developed SHARE (Survey...

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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?

Lundborg, Petter - Tinbergen Instituut

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...

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Who can predict their own Demise? Accuracy of Longevity Expectations by Education and Cognition

d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Ciftci, Esen Erdogan; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the … veracity of expectations are due to the less educated and cognitively able responding less to changes in objective mortality …

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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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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: Technical Report

Cramer, J.S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

and the mortalitydata. The second section discusses the variation of mortality rateswith age in the population and in the … sample. The third section setsout the proportional hazard model that has been used in the analysisand its estimation. …

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality in the Brabant Data Set: First Report

Cramer, J.S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

studies we find that among theearly variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinantof adult mortality is …

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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 Instituut

to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on … mortality. The reform provides a powerful instrument, significantly raising years of schooling, which, in turn, has a large and … significant effect on mortality even in old age. An extra year of schooling is estimated to reduce the probability of dying …

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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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A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut

This discussion paper has led to a publication in <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211200044X">'European Economic Review'</A>, 56(4), 669-90.<P>We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance...</p></a>

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Insurance Search and Switching Behavior

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lindeboom, Maarten - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

adverse selection and a lower premium increases coverage). We also find that consumers with lower search costs are more likely … contracts and higher search costs pay higher premiums and buy lower insurance coverage. …

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