Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers

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14/16: “They do know what they are doing... at least most of them.†Asymmetric Information in the (private) Disability Insurance*

M. Spindler

14/15: Private information in life insurance, annuity and health insurance markets

Amelie Wuppermann

14/14: Long-term Care Insurance and Carers' Labor Supply – A Structural Model

Johannes Geyer and Thorben Korfhage

14/13: Life cycle responses to health insurance status

F. Pelgrin and Pascal St-Amour

14/12: Modelling nonlinearities and reference-dependence in general practitioners’ income preferences

J.H. Holte, Peter Sivey, B. Abelsen and J.A. Olsen

14/11: Does the letter matter (and for everyone)? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of home invitation on mammography uptake

Vincenzo Carrieri and A. Wuebker

14/10: Understanding the effect of retirement on health using Regression Discontinuity Design

Peter Eibich

14/09: The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Anti-diabetics

Tomaso Duso, Annika Herr and Moritz Suppliet

14/08: Physician induced demand for C-sections: does the convenience incentive matter?

Mélanie Lefèvre

14/07: A synthesis of the Grossman and Becker-Murphy models of health and addiction: theoretical and empirical implications

Andrew Jones, Audrey Laporte, Nigel Rice and Eugenio Zucchelli

14/06: Social Interactions and Malaria Preventive Behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bénédicte Apouey and G. Picone

14/05: Formal and informal volunteering and health across European countries

Damiano Fiorillo and Nunzia Nappo

14/04: Attrition Bias in Panel Data: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing? A Case Study Based on the MABEL Survey

Terence Cheng and Pravin Trivedi

14/03: Testing exogeneity of multinomial regressors in count data models: does two stage residual inclusion work?

Andrea Geraci, Daniele Fabbri and Chiara Monfardini

14/02: Inequity in long-term care use and unmet need: two sides of the same coin

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, D. Jimenez-Rubio and Juan Oliva

14/01: Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement

Stephanie von Hinke, G. L. Wehby, S. Lewis and L. Zuccolo

13/35: The Decline in BMI among Japanese Women after WWII

Shiko Maruyama and S. Nakamura

13/34: The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: implications of climate change

Nicolas Ziebarth, Maike Schmitt and Martin Karlsson

13/33: Make time for physical activity or you may spend more time sick!

Grace Lordan and Debayan Pakrashi

13/32: Workers' health and social relations in Italy

Damiano Fiorillo

13/31: An econometric analysis of self-assessed health: what does it mean and what is it hiding?

N. Au and David Johnston

13/30: A quasi-Monte Carlo comparison of developments in parametric and semi-parametric regression methods for heavy tailed and non-normal data: with an application to healthcare costs

Andrew Jones, James Lomas, P. Moore and Nigel Rice

13/29: Equalising Opportunities in Health Through Educational Policy

Andrew Jones, John Roemer and Pedro Rosa Dias

13/28: Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well Being: The Case of Fukushima

Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach and Nicolas Ziebarth

13/27: Born to Win? The Role of Circumstances and Luck in Early Childhood Health Inequalities

David Madden

13/26: Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?

Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

13/24: Infant Health and Academic Achievement in Childhood

P. Chatterji, D. Kim and Kajal Lahiri

13/23: Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on health

Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal

13/22: The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early

Hans Bloemen, S. Hochguertel and J. Zweering

13/20: Obesity, Weight Loss, and Employment Prospects: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Arndt Reichert

13/19: The effect of schooling on health: Evidence on several health outcomes and behaviors

M. Braga and M. Bratti

13/18: Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes

Orla Doyle, Colm Harmon, James Heckman, Caitriona Logue and S.H. Moon

13/17: Difference in Differences for Stayers and Movers with a Time-Varying QualiÂ…cation

M. Lee and Y. Kim

13/16: Point identification in the presence of measurement error in discrete variables: application - wages and disability

Eirini-Christina Saloniki and Amanda Gosling

13/15: The influence of BMI, obesity and overweight on medical costs: a panel data perspective

Toni Mora, Joan Gil and A. Sicras-Mainar

13/14: A discrete latent factor model for smoking, cancer and mortality

Daniel Howdon and Andrew Jones

13/13: Income, rainfall shocks and health. An instrumental variable approach

D. Savage and Eleonora Fichera

13/12: Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata

Peter Eibich and Nicolas Ziebarth

13/11: Health and Wealth on the Roller-Coaster: Ireland, 2003-2011

David Madden

13/10: Weather shocks and nutritional status of disadvantaged children in Vietnam

I. Edoka

13/09: Family Socio-economic Status, Childhood Life-events and the Dynamics of Depression from Adolescence to Early Adulthood

Paul Contoyannis and Jinhu Li

13/08: Moving up and sliding down: An empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing

P. Dolan and Grace Lordan

13/07: The Poverty Effects of a "Fat-Tax" in Ireland

David Madden

13/06: The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control

John Cawley and Stephanie von Hinke

13/05: Inequalities in Self-Reported Health: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

13/04: Self-Reported and Measured BMI in Ireland: Should We Adjust the Obesity Thresholds?

David Madden

13/03: The Relationship Between Low Birthweight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland

David Madden

13/02: Exploring the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and problem drinking as captured by Google searches in the US

Paul Frijters, David Johnston, Grace Lordan and Michael Shields

13/01: House Prices, Home Equity and Health

Eleonora Fichera and John Gathergood

12/29: Decomposing Differences in Cotinine Distribution between Children and Adolescents from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds

I.P. Edoka