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Pension Reform : Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses

Lindeboom, Maarten - 2018

of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that substantially … assess the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male … savings to counter the effect of the reform. These workers, who are generally in worse health, have zero substitution rates …

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Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021

We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a...

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Does Retirement Kill You? Evidence from Early Retirement Windows

Coe, Norma; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021

The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we use unexpected early retirement window offers to...

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The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood

Yeung, Gary - 2012

The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during adulthood. The analyses are performed on a unique historical sample of 14,520 Dutch individuals born in 1880-1918, who are followed throughout life. The economic conditions in...

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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes

Scholte, Robert - 2014

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

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Targeting Disability Insurance Applications with Screening

Godard, Mathilde - 2019

We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using exogenous variation in screening induced by a policy reform. The reform raised DI application costs and revealed more information about the true disability status of applicants...

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The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline Due to Adverse Events Later in Life

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2010

Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such as job loss or the reduction of pension benefits. It is conceivable that the impact of such...

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Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life : The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846-1847

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, … - 2021

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few studies have demonstrated long-Run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and confounding issues. Methods: This paper investigates whether...

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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth...

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Women Move Differently : Job Separations and Gender

Hirsch, Boris - 2010

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...

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