informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired …, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of providing informal care to one’s partner on the caregiver's health … using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We exploit the panel structure of the data …

Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

the education/health gradient. I am also able to rule out occupational hazards and health insurance coverage as …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

We provide a nonparametric revealed preference approach to demand analysis based on homothetic efficiency … homothetic efficiency of consumption choices. It generalises Heufer's (2013) two-dimensional concept to arbitrary dimensions and …

This paper empirically analyzes moral hazard in car insurance using a dynamic theory of an insuree's dynamic risk (ex …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded into the UI system. We … combine an event study with a differencein-difference approach applied to Danish register data to quantify the selection. We …

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 … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …