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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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A health economic theory of occupational choice, aging, and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2022
In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and … longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012873489
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The return to education in terms of wealth and health
Strulik, Holger - 2016
This study presents a new view on the association between education and longevity. In contrast to the earlier … gradient by idiosyncratic returns to education, with causality running from education to longevity. The theory also explains … why compulsory schooling has comparatively small effects on longevity and why the gradient gets larger over time through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557039
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Optimal Aging with Uncertain Death
Strulik, Holger - 2011
This note extends the theory of optimal aging and death (Dalgaard and Strulik, 2010) towards uncertain death …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294412
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Health and Education: Understanding the Gradient
Strulik, Holger - 2011
This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging … unhealthy behavior and 5 percent more health expenditure and thus explains half a year gain of longevity. Progress in medical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294416
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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/10011389454
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Health and education: Understanding the gradient
Strulik, Holger - 2013
This study presents a novel view on education and health behavior of individuals constrained by aging bodies. The aging … benchmark case a difference in cognitive ability that motivates one more year of education leads to an increase of longevity by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322504
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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/10011641362