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Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - 2002

This paper aims to exp1ore the interre1ation between hea1th and work decisions of e1der1y workers, taking the various ways in which hea1th and work can influence each other exp1icitly into account. For this, two issues are of re1evance. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in...

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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; van den Berg, … - 2001

Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move toa nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. Forexample, the individual may enter a prolonged depression. We...

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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe

Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - 2007

An increasing demand for both formal and informal care is likely to result from the ongoing demographic transition at the same time as there is a further move away from the traditional domestic division of labour. Public policy-making that aims at increasing the supply of informal care...

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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa

Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - 2007

Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...

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Education and Entrepreneurial Choice: An Instrumental Variables Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2009

, however, is difficult since it is considered to be an endogenous variable. This study accounts for this endogeneity by using …

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and do Family Background Variables make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Joern H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Roy - 2010

endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial … endogeneity is really present, whether it matters and whether the selected instruments make sense. Using Bayesian methods, we find … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …

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Do Experts incorporate Statistical Model Forecasts and should they?

Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans; Paap, Richard - 2011

Experts can rely on statistical model forecasts when creating their own forecasts. Usually it is not known what experts actually do. In this paper we focus on three questions, which we try to answer given the availability of expert forecasts and model forecasts. First, is the expert forecast...

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Dynamics in clickthrough and conversion probabilities of paid search advertisements

Castelein, Anoek; Fok, Dennis; Paap, Richard - 2019

for time-varying parameters, seasonality, data sparsity and position endogeneity. The model also discriminates between …

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A score-driven filter for causal regression models with time-varying parameters and endogenous regressors

Blasques, Francisco; Stegehuis, Noah - 2024

in the presence of regressor endogeneity which may arise as a result of simultaneity, omitted variables, or measurement …

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