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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
suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321113
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The role early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Deeg, Dorly J. H.; Lindeboom, … - 2010
Serious life events, such as the loss or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch lnogitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273982
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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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The labor and health economics of breast cancer
Ahammer, Alexander; Pruckner, Gerald J.; Stiftinger, Flora - 2024
We estimate the long-run labor market and health effects of breast cancer among Austrian women. Compared to a random … sample of same-aged non-affected women, those diagnosed with breast cancer face a 22.8 percent increase in health expenses, 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070321
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Strength of preference and decision making under risk
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Garagnani, Michele - 2019
Overwhelming evidence from the cognitive sciences shows that, in simple discrimination tasks (determining what is louder, longer, brighter, or even which number is larger) humans make more mistakes and decide more slowly when the stimuli are closer along the relevant scale. We investigate to...
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Strength of preference and decision making under risk
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Garagnani, Michele - 2020
Influential economic approaches as random utility models or quantal-response equilibria assume a monotonic relation between error rates and choice difficulty or "strength of preference", in line with widespread evidence from discrimination tasks in psychology and neuroscience. However, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244619
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Strength of preference and decisions under risk
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Garagnani, Michele - 2022
Influential economic approaches as random utility models assume a monotonic relation between choice frequencies and "strength of preference," in line with widespread evidence from the cognitive sciences, which also document an inverse relation to response times. However, for economic decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164128
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The missing link: Unifying risk taking and time discounting
Epper, Thomas; Fehr-Duda, Helga - 2012
choices involving health, wealth, love or education, almost every choice involves costs and benefits that are uncertain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316850
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Stochastic choice and preference reversals
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Buckenmaier, Johannes; Garagnani, … - 2020
The preference reversal phenomenon is one of the most important, long-standing, and widespread anomalies contradicting economic models of decisions under risk. It describes the robust observation of frequent "standard reversals" where long-shot gambles are valued above moderate ones but then the...
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Flat-of-the-curve medicine: A new perspective on the production of health
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315484