Hendrik Jürges


Office Address

Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
University of Mannheim
L13,17
68131 Mannheim
Germany
Telephone: +49-621-181-3519
Fax: +49-621-181-1863
Email: juerges[at]mea.uni-mannheim.de
RePEc: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pju13.html



Here you see Hendrik at the European Observatory on Ageing

Personal Details

Year of Birth: 1968
Place of Birth: Gummersbach (Germany)
Married, one child
Education

2006: Habilitation in Economics (University of Mannheim)
1996-2000: Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Economics, Universities Dortmund and Bochum. Degree: Doctor rerum politicarum (University of Dortmund)
1992-1993: Studies of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
1989-1995: Studies of Economics, Statistics, and Sociology, University of Cologne. Degree: Diplom-Volkswirt sozialwissenschaftlicher Richtung
Employment

2009- : Full Professor (W3), Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim
2002- : Assistant Co-ordinator of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
2002-2008 : Assistant Professor (C1, A13), Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim
2000-2001: Assistant Professor (C1), Department of Economics (Public Finance), University of Dortmund
1998-2000: Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics (Public Finance), University of Dortmund
Current working papers

Test-retest reliability of health vignette ratings: evidence from SHARE
Hendrik Jürges, November 2009.

Medical Guidelines, Physician Density, and Quality of Care: Evidence from German SHARE Data
Hendrik Jürges, Vincent Pohl. November 2009.

The effect of compulsory schooling on health – evidence from biomarkers
Hendrik Jürges, Eberhard Kruk, Steffen Reinhold. June 2009.

Die Validität subjektiver Gesundheitsindikatoren im internationalen Vergleich
Hendrik Jürges. September 2009.

The Last Year of Life in Europe: Initial findings from the SHARE study
Hendrik Jürges, Karsten Hank. September 2009.

Parental Income and Child Health in Germany
Steffen Reinhold, Hendrik Jürges. March 2009.

Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany
Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold, Martin Salm. July 2009.

Assessment Drives Learning: The Effect of Central Exit Exams on Curricular Knowledge and Mathematical Literacy
Hendrik Jürges, Kerstin Schneider, Martin Senkbeil, Claus H Carstensen. May 2009.

What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong: Birthday Effects and Early Tracking in the German School System
Hendrik Jürges, Kerstin Schneider. July 2007.

Health insurance status and physician-induced demand for medical services in Germany: new evidence from combined district and individual level data
Hendrik Jürges. March 2007.

Does ill health affect savings intentions? Evidence from SHARE
Hendrik Jürges. December 2006.


Selected Publications (Full list of publications)
 
Central exit examinations increase performance... but take the fun out of mathematics
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
Journal of Population Economics 2009, DOI 10.1007/s00148-008-0234-3.

Secondary School Fees and the Causal Effect of Schooling on Health Behavior
Steffen Reinhold & Hendrik Jürges
Health Economics 2009, DOI: 10.1002/hec.1530.
Healthy Minds in Healthy Bodies. An International Comparison of Education-Related Inequality in Physical Health Among Older Adults
Hendrik Jürges
Scottish Journal of Political Economy 56 (3) 2009, 296-320.

True health vs. response styles: Exploring cross-country differences in self-reported health
Hendrik Jürges
Health Economics 16 (2) 2007: 163-178.

Unemployment, life satisfaction, and retrospective error
Hendrik Jürges
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 170 (1) 2007, 43-61

Gender Ideology, Division of Housework, and the Geographic Mobility of Families
Hendrik Jürges
Review of Economics of the Household 4 (4) 2006, 299-323.

The effect of central exit examinations on student achievement: Quasi-experimental evidence from TIMSS Germany
Hendrik Jürges, Kerstin Schneider & Felix Büchel
Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (5) 2005, 1134-1155.

Do Germans Save to Leave an Estate? An Examination of the Bequest Motive
Hendrik Jürges
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 103 (3) 2001, 391-414.

Of Rotten Kids and Rawlsian Parents. The Optimal Timing of Intergenerational Transfers
Hendrik Jürges
Journal of Population Economics 13 (1) 2000, 147-157.



Teaching

Statistical analysis using SPSS, University of Cologne, 1993-1995
Public Finance, University of Dortmund, 1998-2001
International Economics, University of Dortmund, 2000
Econometrics, University of Dortmund, 1998-2001
Econometrics, University of Mannheim, 2002, 2006-2007
Health Economics and Econometrics, University of Mannheim, 2005-2009
Econometrics, TU Darmstadt, 2007
Statistics, TU Darmstadt, 2008
Labour and Education Economics, TU Darmstadt, 2008
Empirical Methods, University of Mannheim, 2009
Other Activities

Referee

Applied Economics
Applied Economics Quarterly (Konjunkturpolitik)
Applied Research in Quality of Life
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Economica
Economic Journal
Economics of Education Review
Economics and Human Biology
Education Economics
Education Finance & Policy
Empirical Economics
European Economic Review
European Journal of Public Health
FinanzArchiv
German Economic Review
Health Economics
International Journal of Manpower
International Statistical Review
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch)
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
Journal of Population Economics
Labour
Labour Economics
Mathematical Population Studies
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Social Science & Medicine
Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
 Presentations at Conferences

AERA Annual Meeting, Chicago 2007 (Invited Talk)
EEA Congress, Santiago de Compostela 1999, Lausanne 2001, Madrid 2004
ESPE Conference, Turin 1999, Athens 2001, New York 2003, Bergen 2004, Paris 2005, Verona 2006
EALE Conference, Jyväskylä 2001, Lisbon 2004, Oslo 2007, Tallinn 2009
4th European Conference on Health Economics, Paris 2002
IIPF Congress, Sevilla 2000, Prague 2003
NBER Summer Institute, Boston 2007
RAND Workshop on Comparative International Research, Santa Monica 2006
RAND Workshop on Subjective Probabilities and Expectations, Jackson Hole 2007
SOEP User Conference, Berlin 2004, 2008
SOLE Annual Meeting, New York 2008, Boston 2009
ZEW Summer Workshop on Human Capital, Mannheim 2002
Verein für Socialpolitik, Mainz 1999, Zürich 2003, Dresden 2004, Bayreuth 2006, München 2007, Graz 2008
Conference on Intergenerational Transfers, Taxes and the Distribution of Wealth, Uppsala 1999
Young Economist Meeting, Amsterdam 1999   
Honors, Grants, Fellowships, Affiliations
Oct 2009-: Member of Committee on Health Economics; German Economic Association (Gesundheitsökonomischer Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik)
Mar 2008: Official nominee for Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research ("Gender Ideology, Division of Housework, and the Geographic Mobility of Families")
Sep 2005-Apr 2009: Junior Member of the Joint Academy Initiative on Aging in Germany
Mar 2005-: Member of Committee on Education Economics; German Economic Association (Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik)
Dec 2004-: Research Professor DIW Berlin, Department German Socio-Economic Panel Study
Sep 2000-Oct 2000: Honorary Research Fellow, Public Sector Economics Research Centre, Department of Economics, University of Leicester
Jul 2000: DIW/GSOEP-Award for Best Junior Paper 1984-1998/99 ("Beruflich bedingte Umzüge…")   
Apr 1996-Mar 1998: DFG Graduate Scholarship
Sep 1992-Mar 1993: ERASMUS Scholarship
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