dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that …

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 …

-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 …

. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected … by endogenous, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not … likely to be strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are …

-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

This discussion paper led to a publication in the <I>Journal of Health Economics</I> (2009). Vol. 28, pages 109-131.<P …> This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore … one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic opportunities by …

, 639–664.<P> Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in … health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by … purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, 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 …occupation%20to%20health%20inequality&f=false">Health and Inequality</A>, pages 311-332 in: (P. Rosa Dias and O. O’Donnell (Eds … occupations affect health, effect estimates are scarce. We use a job characteristics matrix in order to characterize occupations …

health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving interpersonal comparability of … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …

This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost … phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory …. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy …