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Optimal social insurance and health inequality

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2015

This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384604

Optimal social insurance and health inequality

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2017

This paper integrates into public economics a biologically founded, stochastic process of individual ageing. The novel …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594728

Optimal social insurance and health inequality

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409140

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 literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education gradient can be explained by fully rational and efficient...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556905

Long-run improvements in human health : steady but unequal

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2018

There exists a steady trend at which later born cohorts, at the same age, are healthier than earlier born cohorts. We show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find...

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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024

In this paper, we examine the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on individual aging and longevity with special focus on socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and calibrate a health economic model based on principles...

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Reforming retirement age in DB and DC pension systems in an aging OLG economy with heterogenous agents

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Makarski, Krzysztof; Bielecki, Marcin - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-36

We analyze the effects of increasing the retirement age in two economies with overlapping generations and within cohort ex ante heterogeneity. The first economy has a defined benefit system, and the second economy is in transition from a defined benefit to a defined contribution. We find that if...

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Long-term care spending and hospital use among the older population in England

Crawford, Rowena; Stoye, George; Zaranko, Ben - 2020

This paper examines the impact of changes in public long-term care spending on the use of public hospitals among the older population in England, and the cost and quality of this care. Mean per-person long-term care spending fell by 31% between 2009/10 and 2017/18 as part of a large austerity...

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Changes in morbidity over time : evidence from Europe

Heger, Dörte; Kolodziej, Ingo - 2016

longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that disability levels in Europe … have increased due to population ageing and an increase in the prevalence of diseases. The disabling effect of health …

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Quality and cost-effectiveness in long-term care and dependency prevention : the Polish policy landscape

Golinowska, Stanisława; Sowa-Kofta, Agnieszka - 2017

With the population ageing the development of sustainable long-term care institutions is of great importance in many … years policy addressing ageing related problems was developed, focusing on the active ageing instruments. Dependency … prevention and active ageing are among goals of national policies formulated separately in the health and social sector …

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