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Why the Rich drink more but smoke less: The Impact of Wealth on Health Behaviors

Kippersluis, Hans van; Galama, Titus J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

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>

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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?

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

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis,...

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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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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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A Theory of Education and Health

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

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Long-Run Effects of Gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes

Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

find a significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more …

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...

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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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Effects of Health on Own and Spousal Employment and Income using Acute Hospital Admissions

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ … across the income distribution? And are there spillover effects on the employment and income of the spouse? We use matching …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On …

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