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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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Ageing and skills : a review and analysis of skill gain and skill loss over the lifespan and over time
Desjardins, Richard; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2012
; Skills ; Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533340
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
also crucial. All these changes lead to a major rethinking of education and skill training throughout a person’s life. This … from these studies particularly in labor economics can shed light on new directions for lifelong education policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152551
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Long-run consequences of natural disasters: Evidence from Tangshan
Xu, Guo - 2011
education levels today, particularly among the female. Despite lower education, there is no evidence for adverse labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305644
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325639
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty
Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - 2008
once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968303
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Genetic Fortune: Winning or Losing Education, Income, and Health
Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A.P.; Karlsson Linnér, … - 2020
-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427153
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Human Capital Formation: The Importance of Endogenous Longevity
Galama, Titus; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022
We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013356482
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Disparities in socio-economic status and BMI in the UK are partly due to genetic and environmental luck
Burik, Casper A.P.; Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Koellinger, Philipp D. - 2021
socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income … inequalities in education, wages and BMI in the UK are due to inequalities in opportunity that arise from the outcomes of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606001
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Public Finance in the Era of the Covid-19 Crisis
Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022
education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470264