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Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2021

Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...

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Forward-looking moral hazard in social insurance : evidence from a natural experiment

Eliason, Marcus; Johansson, Per-Olov; Nilsson, Martin - 2018

This study tests for forward-looking moral hazard in the social insurance system by exploiting a 1991 reform in Sweden. The replacement rate was reduced for short absences but not for long absences, which introduced a potential future cost of returning to work. Using this exogenous variation in...

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Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...

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Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

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Health insurance as economic stimulus? : evidence from long-term care jobs

Hackmann, Martin B.; Heining, Jörg; Klimke, Roman; … - 2025

-term care (LTC) insurance in Germany in 1995 to examine whether health insurance expansions can stimulate local economies. We …

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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany

Huebener, Mathias - 2019

explain the connection. The health behaviour of the children and the health accumulated over the life course appear as …

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Take-Up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

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Estimating the Value of Public Insurance Using Complementary Private Insurance

Cabral, Marika - 2018

The welfare associated with public insurance is often difficult to quantify. Relative to private insurance, a fundamental difficulty is that public insurance is typically compulsory, so the demand for coverage is unobserved and thus cannot be used to analyze welfare. However, in many public...

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Health endowments, schooling allocation in the family, and longevity: evidence from US twins

Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin C.; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021

mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …

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The employment effects of terminating disability benefits

Moore, Timothy J. - In: Journal of public economics 124 (2015), pp. 30-43

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