This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor … and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro …-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important …

children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms … of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards an equilibrium where all children are sent to school …

This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of … the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed … community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important driver of absence from school …

integrates health in the utility function and utilizes recent estimates on the effects of health on the marginal utility of …

We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men age …

Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … individuals. In this paper we investigate how adaptation to a deteriorating state of health affects health spending, life … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …

biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U …

We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …