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Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010

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...

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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling

Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020

Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...

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Measuring externalities in program evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - 2006

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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Informal and formal care among single-living elderly in Europe

Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn; Lundborg, Per - 2007

elderly parents, and formal care are substitutes or complements, and (2) whether this relationship differs across Europe. The … analyses were based on the newly developed SHARE (Survey of Health, Age, and Retirement in Europe) database. We found (1) that …

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The effect of growth and inequality in incomes on health inequality : theory and empirical evidence from the European panel

Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Koolman, Xander - 2006

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using ….Keywords:income inequality, health inequality, income elasticity of health, Europe. …

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A theory of education and health

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 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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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022

We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...

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Who can predict their own Demise? : accuracy of longevity expectations by education and cognition

Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Erdogan Ciftci, Esen; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 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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The health returns to education : what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...

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Long run returns to education : does schooling lead to an extended old age?

Van Kippersluis, Hans; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2009

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...

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