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Why Life Gets Better After Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work

van de Kraats, Coen; Galama, Titus; Lindeboom, Maarten; … - 2024

We provide evidence that the social norm (expectation) that adults work has a substantial detrimental causal effect on the mental well-being of unemployed men in mid-life, as substantial as, e.g., the detriment of being widowed. As their peers in age retire and the social norm weakens, the...

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Why life gets better after age 50, for some: mental well-being and the social norm of work

van de Kraats, Coen; Galama, Titus; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2022

We provide evidence that the social norm (expectation) of work has a detrimental causal effect on the mental well-being of individuals not able to abide by it. Using SHARE data on men aged 50+ from 10 European countries, we identify the social norm of work effect in a difference-in-differences...

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Why life gets better after age 50, for some : mental well-being and the social norm of work

Kraats, Coen van de; Galama, Titus; Lindeboom, Maarten; … - 2024

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Why life gets better after age 50, for some : mental well-being and the social norm of work

Kraats, Coen van de; Galama, Titus; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2022 - This version: October 29, 2022

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Why life gets better after age 50, for some : mental well-being and the social norm of work*

Galama, Titus J.; Kraats, Coen van de; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2022

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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007

We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have … causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … many health status aspects over time, and that is linked to register data on the vital status of the individuals. The model …

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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...

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The role of 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

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

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Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; von Hinke, … - 2017

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J.; 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 demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

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