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Health and Work of the Elderly
Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>Journal of Applied Econometrics</I> (2009). Volume 24, pages 1024-1046.<P> This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various ways in which hea1th and work can influence each other...</p></i>
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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe
Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
An increasing demand for both formal and informal care is likely to result from the ongoing demographic transition at the same time as there is a further move away from the traditional domestic division of labour. Public policy-making that aims at increasing the supply of informal care...
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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move toa nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. Forexample, the individual may enter a prolonged depression. We...
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Do Experts incorporate Statistical Model Forecasts and should they?
Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans; Paap, Richard - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Experts can rely on statistical model forecasts when creating their own forecasts. Usually it is not known what experts actually do. In this paper we focus on three questions, which we try to answer given the availability of expert forecasts and model forecasts. First, is the expert forecast...
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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...
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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
endogeneity by using an instrumental variables approachand a data set of more than ten thousand individuals from 27 European …
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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