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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … results suggest that the heterogeneity increases by age. We test several potential explanations to these results. Extensive …
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Prosociality predicts health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic
Campos-Mercade, Pol; Meier, Armando N.; Schneider, … - 2020
Socially responsible behavior is crucial for slowing the spread of infectious diseases. However, economic and epidemiological models of disease transmission abstract from prosocial motivations as a driver of behaviors that impact the health of others. In an incentivized study, we show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224938
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The many faces of human sociality: Uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences
Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity … parsimoniously model and characterize heterogeneity across several dimensions of social preferences while still being able to predict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969209
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The effects of day care on health during childhood: Evidence by age
Van den Berg, Gerard J.; Siflinger, Bettina - 2020
This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral problems and mental health as well as on various aspects of physical health, at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of comprehensive individual-level out-patient and inpatient health care register data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388874
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The cognitive foundations of cooperation
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Garagnani, Michele - 2018
incentives that ensure compliance. To account for individual heterogeneity, we independently measured social value orientation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969214
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Stochastic expected utility and prospect theory in a horse race: A finite mixture approach
Bruhin, Adrian - 2008
that researchers may take individual heterogeneity into account in order to avoid aggregation bias. …
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Health shocks, risk preferences and annuity choices
Hagen, Johannes; Hodor, Michal; Hurwitz, Abigail - 2024
This study examines the simultaneous impact of risk type and risk preferences on annuity demand. Through a quasi-experimental design that leverages individuals' reactions to their first malignant cancer diagnosis around retirement, we show that a 30% reduction in the present value of life...
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The long-term effects of hospitalization on health care expenditures: An empirical analysis for the young-old population
Torrini, Irene; Lucifora, Claudio; Russo, Antonio - 2022
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of hospitalization on different types of health care expenditures (HCE). A dynamic DID model with variation in treatment timing is specied and estimated using register data of individuals aged 50-70 residing in Milan, Italy, and observed over the...
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To work or not to work: The economics of a mother's dilemma
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2011
Utilizing linked vital statistics, administrative employer, and state welfare records, the analysis in this paper investigates the determinants of a woman's intermittent labor force decision at the time of a major life event: the birth of a child. The results indicate that both direct and...
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Competing for attention: Is the showiest also the best?
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2015
There are many situations in which alternatives ranked by quality wish to be chosen and compete for the imperfect attention of a chooser by selecting their own salience. The chooser may be "tricked" into choosing more salient but inferior alternatives. We investigate when competitive forces...
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