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Why the Rich drink more but smoke less: The Impact of Wealth on Health Behaviors
van Kippersluis, Hans; Galama, Titus J. - 2013
Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value...
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Why the Rich drink more but smoke less: The Impact of Wealth on Health Behaviors
Kippersluis, Hans van; Galama, Titus J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This discussion paper resulted in the publication 'Wealth and Health Behavior: Testing the Concept of a Health Cost' (2014). Volume 72, pages 197-220.<P> Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256703
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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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Income receipt and mortality : evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398876
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Income receipt and mortality : evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411553
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The gender gap in mortality : how much is explained by behavior?
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016
approach in order to gauge to what extent gender differences in longevity can be attributed to gender-specific preferences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516012
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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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The marriage gap : optimal aging and death in partnerships
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2018
Married people live longer than singles but how much of the longevity gap is causal and what the particular mechanisms … making of a couple into a biologically founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We …% of the marriage gain in longevity of men can be motivated by economic calculus while the marriage gain for women observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796788
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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 … biologically-founded life-cycle model of health deficit accumulation and endogenous longevity. We calibrate the model with U … longevity of men can be motivated by economic calculus while the marriage gain for women observed in the data is attributed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637331
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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
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