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View article: Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India
Male excess mortality during the epidemiological transition: theory and evidence from India Open
At any given age, adult men die at a higher rate than women. In many developed countries, increasing excess mortality of men has been demonstrated for cohorts born in the late nineteenth century and thereafter. The decline in infectious di…
View article: Taking Kuznets seriously
Taking Kuznets seriously Open
Numerous studies have tested Kuznets’ hypothesis of a hump-shaped relationship between inequality and industrialization by regressing the Gini coefficient on the level and square of per capita income. Here, we examine Kuznets’ original ide…
View article: How do we age? A decomposition of Gompertz law
How do we age? A decomposition of Gompertz law Open
A strong regularity of human life is Gompertz's law, which predicts a near-perfect exponential increase in mortality with age. In this paper, we take into account that chronological age is not a cause of death and decompose Gompertz's law …
View article: Automation and the fall and rise of the servant economy
Automation and the fall and rise of the servant economy Open
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269 Economic and Social Research Council
View article: Long-run economic growth despite population decline
Long-run economic growth despite population decline Open
When economic growth is driven by the discovery of new ideas and physical labor is the input in ideas production, population decline inevitably leads to the stagnation of living standards. Here, I reconsider the problem of declining popula…
View article: Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Ageing
Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Ageing Open
We study the optimal design of a fair public pension system in a multi-period overlapping generations model with occupation-specific morbidity and mortality that depends on the retirement age. The fairness constraint acts as institutional …
View article: Inequality and the Industrial Revolution
Inequality and the Industrial Revolution Open
In this paper, we propose a new theory for why income inequality can be conducive to early industrial development. Technological advances in agriculture and population growth increase land rents relative to wages and as the landed elites b…
View article: Higher education and the income-fertility nexus
Higher education and the income-fertility nexus Open
Fertility and income are negatively related at the aggregate level. However, evidence from recent periods suggests that increasing income leads to higher fertility at the individual level. In this paper, I provide a simple theory that reso…
View article: Physiological aging and life-cycle labor supply across countries
Physiological aging and life-cycle labor supply across countries Open
We construct a cohort-based frailty index for 180 countries over the period 1990-2019. We use this measure of physiological aging to estimate the impact of deteriorating health on labor force participation. Our three-dimensional panel fram…
View article: The economics of aging with infectious and chronic diseases
The economics of aging with infectious and chronic diseases Open
We develop an economic model of aging in which the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health deficits (immunosenescence) and the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic healt…
View article: Corona and the Cross: Religious Affiliation, Church Bans, and Covid Infections
Corona and the Cross: Religious Affiliation, Church Bans, and Covid Infections Open
We examine the effectiveness of church service bans in containing the spread of Covid-19 in Germany. We furthermore investigate how differences in the local religious affiliations affect infections and the effectiveness of church bans and …
View article: Physiological aging in India: The role of the epidemiological transition
Physiological aging in India: The role of the epidemiological transition Open
We construct a cohort-based frailty index from age-related health deficits to investigate physiological aging in India over the period 1990-2019. During this period, the Indian states underwent at different speeds the epidemiological trans…
View article: Renewable resource use with imperfect self-control
Renewable resource use with imperfect self-control Open
We investigate renewable resource use when the harvesting agents face self-control problems. Individuals are conceptualized as dual selves. The rational long-run self plans for the infinite future while the affective short-run self desires…
View article: Health and aging before and after retirement
Health and aging before and after retirement Open
We investigate occupation-specific aging patterns before and after retirement and test the level and rate effects of occupation predicted by the health capital model and the health deficit model. We use five waves of the Survey of Health, …
View article: Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance
Anticipation of deteriorating health and information avoidance Open
We integrate anticipatory utility and endogenous beliefs about future negative health shocks into a life-cycle model of physiological aging. Individuals care about their future utility derived from their health status and form endogenous b…
View article: Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Aging
Fair Pension Policies with Occupation-Specific Aging Open
We discuss public pension systems in a multi-period overlapping generations model with gerontologically founded human aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for w…
View article: Testing unified growth theory: Technological progress and the child quantity‐quality tradeoff
Testing unified growth theory: Technological progress and the child quantity‐quality tradeoff Open
A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, through interaction with child quantity‐quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD count…
View article: Medical progress and life cycle choices
Medical progress and life cycle choices Open
In this paper, I show how medical progress, conceptualized as increasing effectiveness of health spending in reducing health deficits, affects optimal lifetime health behavior and health outcomes. To that end, I set up a stochastic life cy…
View article: Optimal demand for medical and long-term care
Optimal demand for medical and long-term care Open
For the population over 65, long-term care (LTC) expenditure constitutes a considerable share in health care expenditures. In this paper, we decompose health care into medical care, intended to improve one’s state of health, and personal c…
View article: Physiological aging around the World
Physiological aging around the World Open
We extract data on physiological aging by computing a frailty index for 201 countries over the period 1990–2019. Using panel estimation techniques, we show that the macro frailty index replicates basic regularities previously observed in r…
View article: A health economic theory of occupational choice, aging, and longevity
A health economic theory of occupational choice, aging, and longevity Open
In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of occupational choice with endogenous health behavior, aging, and longevity. Health-demanding work leads to a faster accumulation of health deficits and is remunerated with a hazard markup on wa…