Working Papers

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Why the Rich Drink More but Smoke Less: The Impact of Wealth on Health Behaviors (with Hans Van Kippersluis), RAND Working Paper (2013)

Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing...

 

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Empirical evidence for decreasing returns to scale in a health capital model (with Patrick Hullegie, Meijer Erik, and Sarah Outcault), RAND Working Paper (2012)

We estimate a health investment equation, derived from a health capital model that is an...

 

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A Contribution to Health Capital Theory, RAND Working Paper (2011)

I present a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on...

 

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle (with Hans van Kippersluis), RAND Working Paper (2010)

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups...

 

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On the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity (with Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, and Arie Kapteyn), RAND Working Paper (2009)

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement...

 

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Grossman’s Missing Health Threshold (with Arie Kapteyn), RAND Working Paper (2009)

We present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely...

 

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Grossman's health threshold and retirement (with Arie Kapteyn, Raquel Fonseca, and Pierre-Carl Michaud), RAND Working Paper (2009)

We formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on...

 

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health (2011)

Detailed understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the substantial socioeconomic disparities in health is necessary...

 

Published Articles

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A health production model with endogenous retirement (with Arie Kapteyn, Raquel Fonseca, and Pierre-Carl Michaued), Health Economics (2012)

We formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on...

 

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Is there empirical evidence for decreasing returns to scale in a health capital model? (with Patrick Hullegie, Erik Meijer, and Sarah Outcault), Health Economics (2012)

We estimate a health investment equation, derived from a health capital model that is an...

 

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Inequalities in mortality in the US and Denmark: More alike than different. A commentary on Hoffman. (with Mauricio Avendano), Social Science and Medicine (2011)
 

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Grossman's missing health threshold (with Arie Kapteyn), Journal of Health Economics (2011)

We present a generalized solution to Grossman’s model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely...