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Why do some Irish drink so much? Family, historical and regional effects on students’ alcohol consumption and subjective normative thresholds

Delaney, Liam; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James - In: Review of Economics of the Household 11 (2013) 1, pp. 1-27

This paper studies determinants of drinking behavior and formation of subjective thresholds of acceptable drinking … alcohol students consume and drinking of their fathers and older siblings. In contrast, we find little evidence of impacts of … other non-drinking aspects of family background on students’ drinking. Parental and older sibling drinking appears to affect …

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Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement

Soest, Arthur van; Kapteyn, Arie; Zissimopoulos, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Structural models explaining retirement decisions of individuals or households in an intertemporal setting are typically hard to estimate using data on actual retirement decisions, since choice sets are for a large part unobserved by the researcher. This paper describes an experiment in which...

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International Comparisons of Work Disability

Banks, James; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2004

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of...

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Dynamics of work disability and pain

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P. - 2006

This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers in the US. We investigate pain and its relationship to work disability and work in a dynamic panel data model, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. We...

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Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales

Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm P.; Kapteyn, Arie; van … - 2008

. The framework is applied to vignettes and objective and subjective self-assessments of drinking behavior by students in …

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Self-reported Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands

Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie - RAND - 2004

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US and The Netherlands. The raw data show that Dutch respondents much more often report that they have a work limiting health problem than respondents in the US. The difference remains when controlling for demographic characteristics and observed...

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Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement

van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2006

Structural models explaining retirement decisions of individuals or households in an inter-temporal setting are typically hard to estimate using data on actual retirement decisions, because choice sets are complicated and uncertain and for a large part unobserved by the researcher. This paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526952

Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales

Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Soest, Arthur Van; … - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2007

. The framework is applied to vignettes and objective and subjective self-assessments of drinking behavior by students in …

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van Soest, Arthur - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as “do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?” A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487698