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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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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players
Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors - such as the number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494786
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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/10014192101
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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 sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. The authors present a life-cycle model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192430
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
conditions, and health investment, provide mechanisms through which SES, health, and longevity are related. As a result, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134546
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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 … adaptation generally increases the value of life (by about 2 to 5 percent), its impact on health behavior and longevity depends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388100
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Long-run improvements in human health : steady but unequal
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2018
Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that for each year of later birth, health deficits decline by on … of human aging. For example, the level of health deficits experienced at age 65 by individuals born 1920 is predicted to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898024
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A closed-form solution for the health capital model
Strulik, Holger - 2014
This paper provides a closed-form solution for the health capital model of health demand. The results are exploited in order to prove analytically the comparative dynamics of the model. Results are derived for the so called pure investment model, the pure consumption model and a combination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429139
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Medical progress, demand for health care, and economic performance
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2017
We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781886
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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems
Aspalter, Christian - 2012
This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113512