Raun van Ooijen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen a fellow of Netspar and the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health.
His research focuses on health-related risks over the life cycle, with an emphasis on work disability and long-term care. He is particularly interested in the value of social insurance programs to mitigate these risks and their effects on socioeconomic inequalities.
His research interests are Health Economics, Public Health, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Ageing, and Empirical econometrics.
People who expect to die in the near future transfer an average of 8-12% of their financial wealth to their loved ones. What’s more, such transfers take place not only among the richest households in society, but also in middle-class families. These are the central findings of a new study of estate planning and inter-vivos […]
