22 Discussion Papers

• 15-135/V - Business Networks and Crisis Performance: Professional, Political, and Family Ties

  Authors: Richard W. Carney, Australian National University, Australia; Travers Barclay Child, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: December 18, 2015

• 15-130/V - Health Disparities by Income in Spain before and after the Economic Crisis

  Authors: Max Coveney, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Pilar Garcia Gomez, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Eddy Van Doorslaer, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Tom Van Ourti, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: December 03, 2015

• 15-127/V - Job Loss, Firm-Level Heterogeneity and Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data

  Authors: Hans Bloemen, VU University Amsterdam; Stefan Hochguertel, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Jochem Zweerink, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

  Date: November 16, 2015

• 15-126/V - A Nonparametric Method for Predicting Survival Probabilities

  Authors: Bas van der Klaauw, VU University Amsterdam; Sandra Vriend, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: November 12, 2015

• 15-121/V - Collective Labour Supply, Taxes, and Intrahousehold Allocation: An Empirical Approach

  Author: Hans Bloemen, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: October 27, 2015

• 15-120/V - Subjective Expectations of Medical Expenditures and Insurance in Rural Ethiopia

  Authors: Zelalem Yilma, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Owen O’Donnell, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Anagaw Mebratie, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Getnet Alemu, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Arjun S. Bedi, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: October 26, 2015

• 15-112/V - A New View on Panel Econometrics. Is Probit feasible after all ?

  Author: Bernard M.S. van Praag, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: September 18, 2015

• 15-109/V - Employee Health and Employer Incentives

  Authors: Patrick Hullegie, VU University Amsterdam; Pierre Koning, VU University Amsterdam

  Date: September 11, 2015

• 15-097/V - Be patient when measuring Hyperbolic Discounting: Stationarity, Time Consistency and Time Invariance in a Field Experiment

  Authors: Wendy Janssens, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.; Berber Kramer, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), United States; Lisette Swart, VU University Amsterdam,the Netherlands

  Date: August 14, 2015

• 15-094/V - Early Life Circumstances and Life Cycle Labor Market Outcomes

  Authors: Manuel Flores, OECD, France; Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Adriaan Kalwij, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

  Date: August 06, 2015

• 15-093/V - Smoking Initiation: Peers and Personality

  Authors: Chih-Sheng Hsieh, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China; Hans van Kippersluis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: August 03, 2015

• 15-081/V - Employers Opting Out of Public Disability Insurance: Selection or Incentive Effects?

  Authors: Wolter H.J. Hassink, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands; Pierre Koning, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Wim Zwinkels, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: July 07, 2015

• 15-073/V - The Effect of Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation

  Authors: Noemi Peter, University of Bern, Switzerland; Petter Lundborg, Lund University, Sweden; Dinand Webbink, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: June 04, 2015

• 15-060/V - Economic Impact of Illness with Health Insurance but without Income Insurance

  Authors: Sven Neelsen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Supon Limwattananon, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand; Khon Kaen University, Thailand; Owen O'Donnell, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Eddy van Doorslaer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: May 21, 2015

• 15-055/V - Trains, Trade and Transaction Costs: How does Domestic Trade by Rail affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?

  Author: Wouter Zant, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: May 18, 2015

• 15-052/V - Who can predict their Own Demise? Accuracy of Longevity Expectations by Education and Cognition

  Authors: Teresa Bago d'Uva, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Esen Erdogan Ciftci, Novartis, Turkey; Owen O'Donnell, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, University of Macedonia, Greece; Eddy van Doorslaer, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: May 07, 2015

• 15-043/V - The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

  Authors: James Berry, Cornell University, United States; Dean Karlan, Yale University, United States; Menno Pradhan, VU University Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam

  Date: March 31, 2015

• 15-034/V - Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption

  Authors: Hale Koç, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Hans van Kippersluis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: March 13, 2015

• 15-031/V - A Theory of Education and Health

  Authors: Titus J. Galama, University of Southern California, RAND Corporation, United States; Hans van Kippersluis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  Date: March 05, 2015

• 15-028/V - Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

  Authors: Hans Bloemen, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Stefan Hochguertel, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Jochem Zweerink, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

  Date: February 24, 2015