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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?
Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute
While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016254
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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137003
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Multiple Causation and the Measurement of Unemployment
Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which classification is used as a way to deal with such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504957
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Disability and Work: the Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256613
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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?
Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut
This discussion paper led to an article in the <I>Journal of Human Resources</I> (2011). Volume 46(4), pages 695-721.<P> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257363
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Multiple Causation and the Measurement of Unemployment
Rodenburg, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which classification is used as a way to deal with such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257466
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Commuters' Preferences for Fast and Reliable Travel
Koster, Paul; Koster, Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We employ a semi-parametric estimation approach to analyse observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the value of … heterogeneity in preferences in a flexible way, meaning that we do not put any structure on how individual characteristics (such as …, we illustrate the estimation approach and find that there is substantial heterogeneity in the value of savings in travel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271951
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Continuous Beliefs Dynamics
Diks, Cees; Weide, Roy van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We propose a general framework for studying the evolution ofheterogeneous beliefs in a dynamic feedback setting. Beliefsdistributions are defined on a continuous space representingthe possible strategies agents can choose from. Agents base theirchoices on past performances. As new information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249542
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On the Effects of Private Information on Volatility
Opschoor, Anne; Wel, Michel van der; Dijk, Dick van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
We study the impact of private information on volatility in financial markets. We develop a comprehensive framework to investigate this link while controlling for the effects of both public information (such as macroeconomic news releases) and private information on prices and the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255523
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Heterogeneity as a Natural Source of Randomness
Diks, Cees; Weide, Roy van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
random utility framework, heterogeneity can be seen to act as a 'natural source of randomness'. Allowing for modeling the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255553