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Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both genders at 16 and 9% (15%) for males (females) at 18. These results are...
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The value of a statistical life (VSL) is a key input for estimating the benefits of policies that save lives. Several recent studies have obtained estimates of the VSL from contingent valuation surveys, i.e., by asking people to say how much they would pay to reduce their risk of dying. This...
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time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll-out of a reform … leading to one extra year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. In 1936, the national government made a seventh school year …-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra compulsory school year …
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assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …
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over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll …-out of a reform leading to one extra year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. In 1936, the national government made a seventh …, by using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the …
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over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll …-out of a reform leading to one extra year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. In 1936, the national government made a seventh …, by using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the …
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time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll-out of a reform … leading to one extra year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. In 1936, the national government made a seventh school year …-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra compulsory school year …
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mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …
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The anticipation of bad future events reduces currently experienced happiness and it may through this channel elicit detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological aging into a life-cycle model, calibrate it with...
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