Essays on the Allocation of Talent, Skills and Inequality, and Life-cycle Effects of Health Risk

This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay studies how health risk affects individuals' economic decisions due to changes in productivity, required medical expenditures, available time and survival probabilities implied by changes in health status. It assesses the role of these...

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Main Author: Capatina, Elena
Other Authors: Kambourov, Gueorgui
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33878