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Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600977
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Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740508
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2011
address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601038
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Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life
Asselmann, Eva; Specht, Jule - 2021
people who retired, Conscientiousness was lower in and after the first year of retirement versus before. No other traits … differed around the start of retirement. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the start of working life might promote … personality maturation and that retirement might promote personality "relaxation". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658393
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277157
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The intergenerational effects of unemployment: How parental unemployment affects educational transitions in Germany
Lindemann, Kristina; Gangl, Markus - 2018
This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing upper secondary education. Besides estimating the average treatment effect of parental unemployment on transition outcomes, we also aim to identify the economic, psychological or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872844
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Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on health
Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2013
This paper estimates the effect of informal care provision on female caregiver's health. We use data from the German Socio-economic Panel and assess effects up to seven years after care provision. A simulation-based sensitivity analysis scrutinizes the sensitivity of the results with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317550
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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286342
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The impact of having children on domain-specific life satisfaction: A quasi-experimental longitudinal investigation using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data
Krämer, Michael D.; Rodgers, Joseph L. - 2020
Longitudinal studies have documented improvements in parents' life satisfaction due to childbearing, followed by postpartum adaptation back to baseline. However, the details underlying this process remain largely unexplored. Based on past literature, set-point theory, and results from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167686
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The child penalty: Implications of parenthood on labour market outcomes for men and women in Germany
Feldhoff, Charlotte H. - 2021
Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483867