analyses were based on the newly developed SHARE (Survey of Health, Age, and Retirement in Europe) database. We found (1) that …

remainder dueto unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the genderlog wage gap is due to differences between … across the wage distribution, particularly in the top half of thedistribution. …

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining … estimates are used to evaluate various model outcomes, like the wage elasticities of labour supply and the impacts of wage …

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are correlatedbecause of …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …