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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...

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Childhood Intelligence and Adult Mortality, and the Role of Socio-Economic Status

Cramer, Jan S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

of early intelligence or cognitive ability with longevity, with a standardized hazard ratio of .80; this is the only …: education, income and wealth are each found to contribute about as much to a longer life as intelligence. The joint effect of … all four variables is dominated by childhood intelligence and adult wealth at the expense of education and income. …

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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?

Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of …) healthy, (ii) ill (in hospital), and (iii) death. We use data from a Dutch cohort born around 1940 that links intelligence … tests at age 12 to later-life hospitalization and mortality records. The results suggest that higher Intelligence induces …

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If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...

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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

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health, with consequences for wellbeing in old age. Systematic differences in the accuracy of longevity expectations may partly explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education...

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Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity

d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/4/875.short">'The Journal of Human Resources'</A>.<p>Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving interpersonal...</p></a>

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A Cognitive Approach to Organizational Complexity

Fioretti, Guido; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

of an organization. We argue that to further our understanding it should be understood in terms of human cognition of a …

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Performance and Relative Incentive Pay: The Role of Social Preferences

Hernandez, Pablo; Minor, Dylan B.; Sisak, Dana - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Under relative performance pay, other-regarding workers internalize the negative externality they impose on other workers. In one form -increased own effort reduces others' payoffs- this results in other-regarding individuals depressing efforts. In another form punishment reduces the payoff of...

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A Theory of Education and Health

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both generalists and specialists to possess skill variety....

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