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This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence on cohort trends of the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and life expectancy at age 65 and show that the longevity gap is increasing across cohorts. For ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
17 (2020), 100199, 24 S.
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children’s development and enhance mothers’ labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three years among industrialized countries on ...
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Labour Economics
62 (2020), 1017763, 18 S.
| Kai-Uwe Müller, Katharina Wrohlich
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We analyse the top tail of the wealth distribution in France, Germany, and Spain using the first and second waves of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be under-represented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate a Pareto distribution, and impute the missing rich. In addition to the Forbes list, we rely on national rich ...
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International Tax and Public Finance
26 (2019), 6, S. 1234-1258
| Stefan Bach, Andreas Thiemann, Aline Zucco
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Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks, productivity and preferences, and the financial incentives of the German public insurance schemes. The estimation uses data on male employees and an extended expectation-maximization ...
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Journal of Health Economics
65 (2019), S. 227-245
| Daniel Kemptner
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In recent years policy-makers are incentivizing later retirement entry by enabling flexible transitions into retirement through partial retirement. However, empirical evidence shows that the labor supply and related fiscal effects of more flexibility in the pension system, through partial retirement, are ambiguous and strongly depend on the design of partial retirement regimes. Two margins are in particular ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
14 (2019), 100187, 15 S.
| Peter Haan, Songül Tolan
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Case and Deaton, 2015 document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, termed as deaths of despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women continued to decrease in several other high-income ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
14 (2019), 100182, 9 S.
| Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Julia Schmieder
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Many informal caregivers are of working age, facing the double burden of providing care and working. Negative labor supply effects can severely reduce the comparative cost advantage of informal over formal care arrangements. When designing long‐term care (LTC) policies, it is crucial to understand the effects not only on health outcomes but also on labor supply behavior of informal caregivers. We evaluate ...
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Health Economics
27 (2018), 9, S. 1328-1339
| Johannes Geyer, Thorben Korfhage
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Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labour market behaviour of fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment and ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
28 (2018), 5, S. 471-486
| Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
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In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the effects of these threshold‐based policies on political and economic outcomes. Using evidence ...
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American Journal of Political Science
62 (2018), 1, S. 210-229
| Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini
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We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections to the legislative and the executive branches. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for the two branches, evaluate the effects of overlaps, and account for general year effects. We find sizable effects on expenditures before legislative elections and even larger effects before ...
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Public Choice
177 82018), 1-2, S. 1-27
| Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger, Mustafa Yeter