Discussion und Working Papers

  1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Health Care Expenditures and Longevity: Is There a Eubie Blake Effect?

    It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE) in a population. According to the "red herring" hypothesis, the positive correlation…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2012

    Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity

    In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings…