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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 …> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied …
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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 …Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257432
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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 … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health … probabilities that are less accurate in predicting their in-sample mortality. There is little evidence that the gradients in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275101
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Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business … death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health … indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We nonparametrically compare those born in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256757
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Imperfect Information, Lagged Labor Adjustment and the Great Moderation
Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A HREF="https://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=5&SID=T2lPmvB33HytcbnHQmV&page=1&doc=4">'Oxford Economic Papers-New Series'</A>, 2013, 65(2), 219-239.<P> This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations ("the labor adjustment lag") that is visible in US data since the...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256598
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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257090
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Inequity in the Face of Death
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Schokkaert, Erik; Ourti, Tom Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that …We apply the theory of inequality in opportunity to measure inequity in mortality. Ourempirical work is based on a rich … distinguishing between differentchannels via which mortality is affected is necessary to test the sensitivity of the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256310
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256413
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257283
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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
-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 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255539