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The 'Healthy Worker Effect' : Do Healthy People Climb the Occupational Ladder?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

larger than that of an upper secondary education …

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'Cultural Persistence' of Health Capital : Evidence from European Migrants

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records from 30 countries, including over 90 countries of...

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Does Insurance Expansion Alter Health Inequality and Mobility? Evidence from the Mexican Seguro Popular

Costa-Font, Joan - 2018

The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both...

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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? Cross-Country and Longitudinal Evidence

Costa-Font, Joan - 2015

The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the hypothesis of an...

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The Measurement of Health Inequalities : Does Status Matter?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...

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Optimal Policy and the Risk Properties of Human Capital Reconsidered

Anderberg, Dan - CESifo - 2008

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. Aset of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

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The Effect of Education on Marital Status and Partner Characteristics: Evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - CESifo - 2010

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...

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Education, Disappointment and Optimal Policy

Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - CESifo - 2014

Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …

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