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Optimal Aging with Uncertain Death
Strulik, Holger - 2011
This note extends the theory of optimal aging and death (Dalgaard and Strulik, 2010) towards uncertain death …
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Health and Education: Understanding the Gradient
Strulik, Holger - 2011
This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294416
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The health hump
Strulik, Holger - 2015
In this paper, I suggest a novel explanation for a hump-shaped ageconsumption profile, based on human aging. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374906
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Going from bad to worse: Adaptation to poor health, health spending, longevity, and the value of life
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2015
Aging humans adapt to their worsening state of health and old people are usually happier than estimated by young … expectancy, and the value of life. We set up a a life cycle model in which individuals are subject to physiological aging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011389454
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Health and education: Understanding the gradient
Strulik, Holger - 2013
This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322504
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The return to education in terms of wealth and health
Strulik, Holger - 2016
This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education gradient can be explained by fully rational and efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557039
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Hyperbolic discounting can be good for your health
Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016
. Here, we challenge this view. We set up a life-cycle model of human aging and longevity in which individuals discount the … health than they would if they had a constant rate of time preference. Using a calibrated life-cycle model of human aging, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582098
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How we fall apart: Similarities of human aging in 10 European countries
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
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 …), however, we find much greater rates of aging and large differences between men and women as well as between countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590639
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The marriage gap: Optimal aging and death in partnerships
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2017
Married people live longer than singles but how much of the longevity differential is causal and what the particular mechanisms are is not fully understood. In this paper we propose a new approach, based on counterfactual computational experiments, in order to asses how much of the marriage gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641362
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Smoking kills: An economic theory of addiction, health deficit accumulation, and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2017
In this paper I unify the economic theories of addiction and health deficit accumulation and develop a life cycle theory in which individuals take into account the fact that the consumption of addictive goods reduces their health and longevity. I distinguish two types of addiction: perfect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674306