Bijwaard, Govert; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of …) healthy, (ii) ill (in hospital), and (iii) death. We use data from a Dutch cohort born around 1940 that links intelligence … tests at age 12 to later-life hospitalization and mortality records. The results suggest that higher Intelligence induces …