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Mapping Educational Disparities in Life-Cycle Consumption
Hougaard Jensen, Svend E.; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022
This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country’s financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...
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Health Dynamics Shape Life-Cycle Incomes
Kotschy, Rainer - 2019
This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United … States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular … disease mortality across states over time. The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person …
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Increased Instruction Time and Stress-Related Health Problems Among School Children
Marcus, Jan - 2019
While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health … claims data of the German Social Health Insurance. Exploiting the differential timing in the reform implementation across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866398
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Age and Health Related Inheritance Taxation
Leroux, M.‐L; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021
This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...
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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …
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Fair Long-Term Care Insurance
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2019
The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866386
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Detecting Coverage Bias in User-Generated Content
Kerkhof, Anna; Munster, Johannes - 2021
The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive...
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State Investment in Higher Education : Effects on Human Capital Formation, Student Debt, and Long-Term Financial Outcomes of Students
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Gorton, Nicole; Lovenheim, Michael - 2021
Most public colleges and universities rely heavily on state financial support. As state budgets have tightened in recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined substantially. Despite concerns expressed by policymakers and scholars that the declines in state support have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315212
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Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Income
Aksoy, Yunus - 2020
We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...
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The (after) Life-Cycle Theory of Religious Contributions
Blomberg, S. Brock - 2008
We construct and estimate an economic model of religious giving. We employ a dynamic consumer optimization model with mortality in which intra-temporal utility stems from both consumption and religious contributions. Individuals also decide how to allocate resources between religious...
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