This discussion paper led to a publication in the <I>Journal of Health Economics</I> (2011). Vol. 30(4), pages 774-794.<P> We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We...</p></i>

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...

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on therate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme...

In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...

This discussion paper led to chapter <A href="https://books.google.nl/books?id=9TKgAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA327&lpg=PA327&dq=The+contribution+of+occupation+to+health+inequality&source=bl&ots=ARvoHIjbie&sig=HWA5I2mtJbsV_nJV5cvF6ixZmT0&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=FEj0VNbeGoHlUqjsgdgN&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=The%20contribution%20of%20occupation%20to%20health%20inequality&f=false">Health and Inequality</A>, pages 311-332 in: (P. Rosa Dias and O. O’Donnell (Eds)) Vol. 21 of 'Research on Economic Inequality', Emerald Group Publishing, 2013, 536 pages.<P> While it seems evident that occupations affect health, effect estimates are scarce. We...</p></a>

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629614001180">'Journal of Health Economics'</A> 2015, 39, 17-30.<P> 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...</p></a>

This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost' (2014). Volume 72, pages 197-220.<P> Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and...</p>