Two Essays on Habit Formation in Labor Supply and One Essay on Long-Term Care Insurance and Medicare
The first chapter investigates whether East German women became used to the requirement of working full-time under communism and thereby continued to work much longer hours than did their counterparts in the West after unification. The second chapter develops a rational habit formation model...
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Boston College
2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1804 |
| Summary: | The first chapter investigates whether East German women became used to the requirement of working full-time under communism and thereby continued to work much longer hours than did their counterparts in the West after unification. The second chapter develops a rational habit formation model in labor supply using the idea of habits outlined in the first chapter. I show that the proposed model avoids the extreme behavior observed in the standard model in the literature where in the long-run hours of work could increase indefinitely or decrease to zero over time. The third chapter examines whether disabled elders who have private long-term care insurance consume fewer acute or post-acute Medicare covered services. === Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2004. === Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. === Discipline: Economics. |
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