Non-monotonicity in the longevity–income relationship

Hupfeld, Stefan

doi:10.1007/s00148-009-0284-1

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“…This problem is especially worrisome when analyzing women, since within the analyzed birth cohorts the model of the male bread winner is predominant. This is the reason why most researchers using the German public pension data exclude women (see von Gaudecker & Scholz (2007: 88), Shkolnikov et al (2007: 265) Himmelreicher et al (2008: 275-276), Hupfeld (2010); also Kroll & Lampert (2009: 7) recommend leaving out women). 14 On the other hand, if longevity is not causally influenced by affluence (which can be measured by household income) but by education of the individual, the person's own earnings is the adequate income measure.…”

Section: Pros and Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since the latter is transformed into an old-age pension at the latest with reaching age 65 Hupfeld (2010), individuals whose last pension was a disability pension died rather young (no missing values).…”

Section: Sex: Pensioner's Sex (No Missing Values)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For Germany, e.g., since the establishment of the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance Administration in 2004, a new data set has been made available for scientific analyses (Himmelreicher et al 2006). So far, it was solely employed to investigate the relationship between income and longevity for men Shkolnikov et al 2007;Breyer & Hupfeld 2009;Himmelreicher et al 2008;Hupfeld 2010). But it is of obvious scientific interest to know whether this holds for women as well.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All researchers using data from the German public pension system Shkolnikov et al 2007;Breyer & Hupfeld 2009;Himmelreicher et al 2008;Hupfeld 2010) find the relationship between income and longevity to be nonmonotonous. While this non-monotonicity is basically ignored in Breyer & Hupfeld (2009), this is argued to be an artifact of the data in von , Shkolnikov et al (2007) and Himmelreicher et al (2008).…”

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“…While this non-monotonicity is basically ignored in Breyer & Hupfeld (2009), this is argued to be an artifact of the data in von , Shkolnikov et al (2007) and Himmelreicher et al (2008). Only Hupfeld (2010) comes up with a theoretical rationale for the non-monotonous relationship. He argues that especially at the left of the income distribution higher incomes might result from either higher wages (originating from a higher individual productivity) or simply more labor supply.…”

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Income and Longevity Revisited: Do High-Earning Women Live Longer?

Breyer

Marcus

2010

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Section: Pros and Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sex: Pensioner's Sex (No Missing Values)mentioning

confidence: 99%