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Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - 2013

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …

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Rotten kids with bad intentions

Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - 2010

We examine a 'Rotten Kid' model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intentionbased rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind...

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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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Motivated Risk Assessments

Islam, Marco - 2021

How do people assess risks associated with a hedonic but dangerous activity? I conduct a longitudinal field experiment (N=434) exploiting the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic to investigate whether monetary incentives induce people to motivate their risk assessments. Each participant receives...

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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 … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …

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The effect of superstition on health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost month

Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-Lun; Liu, Jin-tan - 2019

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … is a quantum effect, the latter two effects reflect changes in the timing of events. Efficient public health policy …

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Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Swedish Household Data

Andersson, Björn - 2001

This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...

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Childhood Health and Labor Market Outcomes in the Case of Type 1 Diabetes

Persson, Sofie; Dahlquist, Gisela; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; … - 2014

This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an … instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and … health shock. Using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register and national registers on education, employment, and …

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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity: Sweden, 1968-2009

Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a …

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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...

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