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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10872 Stephen B. Billings
Kevin T. Schnepel
Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead
Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 315 - 344)
I12, I18, I21, J13, J24, K42, Q53, Q58
10871 Juan Pablo Atal
Hanming Fang
Martin Karlsson
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 697-727)
G22, I11, I18
10870 Adam Pilny
Ansgar Wübker
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 330-351)
D12, H51, I11, I13, I18
10869 Andrea Brandolini
Stephen P. Jenkins
John Micklewright
Tony Atkinson and His Legacy
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 411 - 444. )
D3, H00, I3
10868 Richard V. Burkhauser
Nicolas Herault
Stephen P. Jenkins
Roger Wilkins
Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2018, 39 (2), 213-240 )
D31, C81
10867 Sara de la Rica
Lucía Gorjón
Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country
In this paper we assess the impact of a Minimum Income Scheme (MIS) which has been operating in the Basque Country, one of Spain's 17 regions, for more than twenty years. In particular, we test ...
(published as 'Assessing the impact of a minimum income scheme: the Basque Country case' in: SERIEs, 2019, 10, 251 - 280)
C14, C21, C52
10866 Marlon R. Tracey
Solomon Polachek
If Looks Could Heal: Child Health and Paternal Investment
Data from the first two waves of the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing study indicate that infants who look like their father at birth are healthier one year later. The reason is such father-child ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, 179-190.)
I12, J12, J13
10864 Julia Bredtmann
Christina Vonnahme
Less Alimony after Divorce: Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17 (4), 1191-1223)
J12, J13, J22
10863 Wang-Sheng Lee
Terra McKinnish
The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 337-362.)
D1, J12
10862 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Caregivers in the Family: Daughters, Sons and Social Norms
Daughters are the principal caregivers of their dependent parents. In this paper, we study long-term care (LTC) choices by bargaining families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC care can be ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 130, 2020, 103589.)
D13, H23, H31, I19
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