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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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Compression of morbidity and the labor supply of older people
Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2006
Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266819
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Health Inequalities by Education, Income, and Wealth : A Comparison of 11 European Countries and the US
Jürges, Hendrik - 2009
I compare education-, income-, and wealth-related health inequality using data from 11 European countries and the US. The health distributions in the US, England and France are relatively unequal independent of the stratifying variable, while Switzerland or Austria always have relatively equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157343
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Does the Formal Home Care Provided to Old-Adults Persons Affect Utilization of Support Services by Informal Carers? An Analysis of the French CARE and the U.S. NHATS/NSOC Surveys
Guets, Wilfried - 2021
The role of informal carers in long-term care sheds light on the struggle related to population ageing and the increasing incidence of chronic disease. However, despite the increasing number of informal carers, most of them experienced the burden of caregiving. Since various policies have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239123
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Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias : Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information
Jeong, Yeongmi; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Skira, Meghan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
to ADRD in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We replicate existing relationships between genetic factors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512035
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Racial Concordance and the Quality of Medical Care : Evidence from the Military
Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
One explanation for insufficient use of primary care in the U.S. is a lack of trust between patients and providers - particularly along racial lines. We assess the role of racial concordance between patients and medical providers in driving use of preventive care and the implications for patient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477259
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How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study
Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; Langa, Kenneth M.; Halpern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making. We conducted a nationally representative experimental survey that cross-randomized cognitive impairment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486208
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Compression of morbidity and the labor supply of older people
Romeu Gordo, Laura - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132556
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Compression of morbidity and the labor supply of older people
Romeu Gordo, Laura - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592405
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Divorcing upon retirement : a regression discontinuity study
Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2014
The many facets of retirement have been studied widely by economists. However, the effect of retirement on marriage … stability has been ignored in the literature. Retirement represents a dramatic change in individual time allocation that may … transition into retirement. We study the effect of retirement on marriage outburst rates using observations on over 200 000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345545