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R&D-driven medical progress, health care costs, and the future of human longevity

Böhm, Sebastian; Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2018

interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential … futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline policy scenario of health care access, the calibrated model predicts … substantial future increases in health and life expectancy, associated with rising shares of health expenditure in GDP. Freezing …

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In support of the turner hypothesis for the 19th century American West : a biological response to recent criticisms

Carson, Scott Alan - 2018

In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner proposed that America's Western frontier was an economic "safety-valve", a place where settlers could migrate when conditions in eastern states and Europe crystalized against their upward economic mobility. However, recent studies suggest the Western frontier's...

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The 19th century net nutrition transition from free to bound labor : a difference-in-decompositions approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2018

The body mass index (BMI) reflects current net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces …

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Let the little children come to me

Portela, Miguel; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018

We document the relationship of a set of individual choices - including parenthood, marital state, and income - with an individual's cause of death. Using the data set of the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS-LS) which follows one percent of the population of England and...

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Who voted for Brexit? : individual and regional data combined

Alabrese, Eleonora; Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; … - 2018

, infrequent use of smartphones and the internet, receiving benefits, adverse health and low life satisfaction. These results …

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Physician density and infant mortality : a semiparametric analysis of the returns to health care provision

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2018

endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … measles, influenza and bronchitis. To investigate diminishing returns to health care provision, we develop a semiparametric …

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Changing current net nutrition with weight as a measure of net nutritional change with the transition from bound to free labor : a difference-in-decompositions approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2019

A population's weight conditioned on height reflects its current net nutrition and demonstrates health variation during …

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Wages anatomy : labor supply of nurses and a comparison with physicians

Andreassen, Leif; Di Tommaso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2014

We estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of Registered Nurses’ labor supply with random terms. A distinguished feature of our model is that random terms are correlated over time and jobs (habit persistence). Past options and not only the past optimal choices matter for the current choices....

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Optimal social insurance and health inequality

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2015

approach enables us to investigate the interaction between health and retirement policy in order to quantitatively characterize … implications for health inequality. Calibrating our model to Germany, we find that currently the public health and pension system … is approximately optimal. Future progress in medical technology calls for a potentially drastic increase in health …

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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics : evidence from the UK

Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010

This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...

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