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The effects of health shocks on family status: do financial incentives encourage marriage?

Ehlert, Andree - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 22 (2021) 9, pp. 1393-1409

This paper asks whether marriage decisions of unmarried mature couples are driven by the prospect of financial advantages for the later widowed after one partner has suffered a serious health shock. We hypothesize that, in contrast to traditional marriage models, such health shocks may induce...

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Early Life Environments and Frailty in Old Age among Chinese Older Adults

Li, Yaxi; Xue, Qian-Li; Odden, Michelle C.; Chen, Xi; … - 2020

factors with frailty among older adults using a large, nationally representative cohort of community-dwelling Chinese sample … the association between risk factors and frailty and further calculated the absolute risk difference for the statistically … status as measured by educational attainment and neighborhood quality may increase the risk of late-life frailty among …

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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age: Comparative Evidence from China and the United States

Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020

This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...

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Gene selection for survival data under dependent censoring: a copula-based approach

Emura, Takeshi; Chen, Yi-Hau - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Dependent censoring arises in biomedical studies when the survival outcome of interest is censored by competing risks. In survival data with microarray gene expressions, gene selection based on the univariate Cox regression analyses has been used extensively in medical research, which however,...

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Increase in frailty of older workers and retirees predicted by negative psychosocial working conditions on the job

Kalousova, Lucie; Mendes de Leon, Carlos - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 275-283

associations between declines in health in later life, measured as frailty, and negative psychosocial working conditions, and … ratio were all predictors of increasing frailty. The association between low reward and change in frailty was modified by … retirement status at follow-up, with nonretired respondents in low-reward jobs experiencing the largest increases in frailty at …

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Implementing care programmes for frail older people: A project management perspective

Bindels, Jill; Cox, Karen; Abma, Tineke A.; Schayck, … - In: Health Policy 119 (2015) 1, pp. 9-16

To examine the issues that influenced the implementation of programmes designed to identify and support frail older people in the community in the Netherlands.

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Pricing Default Events: Surprise, Exogeneity and Contagion.

Gouriéroux, C.; Monfort, A.; Renne, J-P. - Banque de France - 2013

In order to derive closed-form expressions of the prices of credit derivatives, standard credit-risk models typically price the default intensities, but not the default events themselves. The default indicator is replaced by an appropriate prediction and the prediction error, that is the...

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Default prediction with dynamic sectoral and macroeconomic frailties

Chen, Peimin; Wu, Chunchi - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 40 (2014) C, pp. 211-226

This paper extends the macroeconomic frailty model to include sectoral frailty factors that capture default … correlations among firms in a similar business. We estimate sectoral and macroeconomic frailty factors and their effects on default … intensity using the data for Japanese firms from 1992 to 2010. We find strong evidence for the presence of sectoral frailty …

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Gagliardini, Patrick; Gouriéroux, Christian - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37 (2013) 11, pp. 2241-2269

introducing a dynamic frailty, whereas the contagion passes through the effect of the lagged number of individuals in the bad risk …

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Love and Death : A Freund Model with Frailty

Gouriéroux, Christian; Lu, Yang - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2013

of a Freund model, and risk dependence by means of an unobservable common risk factor (or frailty). These models allow … for distinguishing in the lifetime dependence the component due to common lifetime (frailty) from the broken …

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