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We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
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for health care and paying for other goods and services. The income and health care expenditures not paid from personal … the elderly's full income was devoted to health care; 65 percent to other goods and services. Approximately 56 percent of … percentages might change under alternative assumptions about the growth of health care relative to other goods and services and …
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expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were …
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The effect of new health information on individuals' expectations about their longevity is examined using a Bayesian … more extensive advice on health behavior from their physicians. The subjective probability of survival declines with health …
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We use a new data file of insurance claims under employer- provided health plans to describe the pattern of … FIRM plans seem to have substantial effects on health care expenditures. Inpatient expenditures are a much larger fraction … health disorders account for a surprisingly large fraction of health care costs. (3) The components of health care cost …
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We consider how age-health profiles differ by demographic characteristics such as education, race, and ethnicity. A key … feature of the analysis is the joint estimation of health and mortality to correct for the effect of mortality selection on … observed age-health profiles. The model also allows for heterogeneity in individual health at a point in time and the …
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Older wealthholders spend down assets slowly. To study this pattern, the paper introduces health dependent utility into … consumption combine with health and longevity uncertainty to determine saving behavior. To help separately identify motives, it … from the Vanguard Research Initiative. Estimates of the health-state utility function imply that motives associated with …
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nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … pensions and retiree health insurance have the largest influence on retirement, the opportunity cost associated with outside …
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Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is the single most effective HIV prevention intervention in practice today. Nonetheless, little reliable empirical evidence exists on the behavioral effects of PMTCT. This paper documents the rapid expansion of access to PMTCT in Zambia...
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Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....
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