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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption
Koç, Hale; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health …" rising with education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288388
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325639
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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 … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325875
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans; Veenman, Justus - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326267
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The Impact of Later Tracking on Mortality by Parental Income in Finland
Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017
We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662528
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Human Capital Formation: The Importance of Endogenous Longevity
Galama, Titus; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013356482
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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2014
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … COPD, education still plays a role. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491394
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192101