Hendrik Jürges


Office Address

University of Wuppertal
Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21 (FN.01)
42119 Wuppertal
Germany
Telephone: +49-202-439-1385
Fax: +49-202-202-1384
Email: juerges[at]uni-wuppertal.de
RePEc: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pju13.html


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

2010- : Full Professor in Health Economics and Management (W3), Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal
2009-2010: Full Professor in Empirical Health Economics (W3), Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim
2002-2010: 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
   
Publications

Health
Are anchoring vignettes ratings sensitive to vignette age and sex?
Hendrik Jürges & Joachim Winter
Health Economics, forthcoming.

Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany
Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold & Martin Salm
Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.


Parental Income and Child Health in Germany
Steffen Reinhold & Hendrik Jürges
Health Economics, forthcoming.

Changes in Compulsory Schooling and the Causal Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from Germany
Daniel Kemptner, Hendrik Jürges & Steffen Reinhold
Journal of Health Economics 30 (2) 340-354.


The last year of life in Europe: Initial findings from the SHARE study
Karsten Hank & Hendrik Jürges
Ageing & Society 30, 2010, 1-14.

Health inequalities by education, income, and wealth: a comparison of 11 European countries and the US
Hendrik Jürges
Applied Economics Letters 17 (1) 2010, 87-92.

Secondary School Fees and the Causal Effect of Schooling on Health Behavior

Steffen Reinhold, Hendrik Jürges
Health Economics 19 (8) 2010, 921-938.
Educational level and changes in health across Europe: Longitudinal results from SHARE
Mauricio Avendano, Hendrik Jürges & Johan Mackenbach
Journal of European Social Policy 19 (4) 2009, 301-316.


Isometrische Greifkraft und sozialgerontologische Forschung: Ergebnisse und Analysepotentiale des SHARE und SOEP
Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges, Jürgen Schupp & Gert G. Wagner
Zeitschrift fuer Gerontologie & Geriatrie 42 (2) 2009, 117–126.

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.

Bildung als soziale Determinante gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit im Alter
Hendrik Jürges &
Karsten Hank
Public Health Forum 16 (59) 2008, 23-24.

Health insurance status and physician behavior in Germany
Hendrik Jürges
Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch) 129 (2) 2009, 297-308.

Are different measures of self-rated health comparable? An assessment in five European countries
Hendrik Jürges, Mauricio Avendano & Johan Mackenbach
European Journal of Epidemiology 23 (12) 2008, 773-781.

Health, bequests, and social support in the last year of life: first results from the SHARE end of life interviews
Hendrik Jürges
In: Börsch-Supan et al. (eds.) Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe 2004-2007, Mannheim 2008.

Bildungsbezogene Ungleichheit in der Gesundheit Älterer: eine international vergleichende Analyse
Hendrik Jürges
In: Börsch-Supan et al. (eds.) 50+ in Deutschland und Europa: Ergebnisse des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Self-assessed health, reference levels, and mortality
Hendrik Jürges
Applied Economics 40 (5) 2008, 569-582.

Quality of Work, well-being and intended early retirement of older employees - baseline results from the SHARE Study
Morten Wahrendorf, Olaf von dem Knesebeck, Hendrik Jürges, Johannes Siegrist & Axel Börsch-Supan
European Journal of Public Health 17 (1) 2007: 62-68.

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

Cross-country differences in general health
Hendrik Jürges
Ch. 3.3 in Börsch-Supan et al. (eds.) Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Mannheim, 2005.

The Welfare Costs of Addiction
Hendrik Jürges
Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch) 124 (3) 2004, 327-353.

Education

Assessment drives learning: The effect of central exit exams on curricular knowledge and mathematical literacy
Hendrik Jürges, Kerstin Schneider, Martin Senkbeil & Claus H. Carstensen
Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.


Why young boys stumble: Early tracking, age and gender bias in the German school system
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
German Economic Review, forthcoming.

Central exit examinations increase performance... but take the fun out of mathematics

Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
Journal of Population Economics 23, 2010: 497-517.

Ressourcen und Anreize im Bildungswesen: Aufgaben und Handlungsmöglichkeiten des Staates aus Sicht der Bildungsökonomik
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft 11 (2008) 2:234-252.

Leistungsgerechtere Bezahlung von Lehrern: Sinnvolle Option oder sinnlose Ökonomisierung?
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
Recht der Jugend und des Bildungswesens 1/2007, 83-97.

Im Frühjahr geborene Kinder haben schlechtere Bildungsschancen
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
DIW-Wochenbericht 17/2006, 209-214.

Fair Ranking of Teachers
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
Empirical Economics 32 (2007) 411-431.

Dynamische Lohneffekte beruflicher Weiterbildung. Eine Längsschnittanalyse mit Daten des SOEP
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
In: Weiß, Manfred: Evidenzbasierte Bildungspolitik: Beiträge der Bildungsökonomie. Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Neue Folge Band 313, Duncker & Humblodt, Berlin 2006.

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.

Teacher quality and incentives, Theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality
Hendrik Jürges, Wolfram F. Richter & K. Schneider
FinanzArchiv 61 (3) 2005, 298-326

Leistungs- und Signaleffekte zentraler Abschlussprüfungen – Eine TIMSS-Auswertung bei deutschen Haupt- und Realschülern
Felix Büchel, Hendrik Jürges & K. Schneider
In: Backes-Gellner, U. and Moog, P (eds.): Ökonomie Evaluation von Schulen und Hochschulen. Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Neue Folge Band 302, Duncker & Humblodt, Berlin 2004.

Die Auswirkungen zentraler Abschlussprüfungen auf die Schulleistung - Quasi-experimentelle Befunde aus der deutschen TIMSS-Stichprobe
Felix Büchel, Hendrik Jürges & K. Schneider
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 72 (2) 2003, 238-251.

International Differences in Student Achievement: An Economic Perspective
Hendrik Jürges & Kerstin Schneider
German Economic Review 5 (3) 2004, 357-380

Bildung und Wissenschaft. Mehr Mut zu marktorientierten Reformen
Hendrik Jürges & Wolfram F. Richter
RWI-Mitteilungen 49 (3/4) 1998, S.199-210.

Family

Gender and the Division of Household Labor in Older Couples: A European Perspective
Karsten Hank & Hendrik Jürges
Journal of Family Issues 28 (3) 2007: 399-421.

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

Gifts, Inheritances, and Bequest Expectations
Hendrik Jürges
Ch. 4.4 in Börsch-Supan et al. (eds.) Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Mannheim, 2005

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.

Parent-Child Transfers in Germany: A Study of Magnitude and Motivations
Hendrik Jürges
Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 119 (3) 1999, 429-453.

Labor

Early Retirement, Social Security and Well-Being in Germany
Axel Börsch-Supan & Hendrik Jürges
In: Wise, D. (ed.): Developments in the Economics of Aging, pp. 173-199. Chicago, 2009.

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

Retrospective error in SOEP calendar data: the case of unemployment
Hendrik Jürges
Journal of Applied Social Science Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch) 125 (1) 2005, 157-165

Age, Cohort, and the Slump in Job Satisfaction among West German Workers
Hendrik Jürges
Labour 17 (4) 2003, 489-518.

The Distribution of the German Public-Private Wage Gap
Hendrik Jürges
Labour 16 (2) 2002, 347-381

Beruflich bedingte Umzüge von Doppelverdienern - Eine empirische Analyse mit Daten des SOEP
Hendrik Jürges
Zeitschrift für Soziologie 27 (5),1998, S. 358-377

Einkommen und berufliche Situation von Doppelverdienern nach Umzügen
Hendrik Jürges
Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 31(2), 1998, S. 234-243

Survey Research

Comparing the Well-Being of Older Europeans: Introduction
Hendrik Jürges & Arthur van Soest
Social Indicators Research, DOI 10.1007/s11205-011-9876-8


Introduction: empirical research on health, ageing and retirement in Europe

Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges und Mathis Schröder
Journal of European Social Policy 19 (4) 2009, 293-300

Die Erhebung biometrischer Daten im Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges und Barbara Schaan
Methoden Daten Analysen 3 (1) 2009, 97-108

A New Comprehensive and International View on Ageing: Introducing the 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank & Hendrik Jürges
European Journal of Ageing 2 (4) 2005, 245-253

Interview, Module, and Question Length in SHARE
Hendrik Jürges
Ch. 8 in Axel Börsch-Supan & Hendrik Jürges (eds.) The Survey Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Methodology, Mannheim, 2005

Longitudinal Data Collection in Continental Europe: Experiences from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges & Mathis Schröder)
In: Janet Harkness et al. (eds.), Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., in preparation.
SHARE - Measuring the Ageing Process in Europe
Axel Börsch-Supan, Hendrik Jürges & Oliver Lipps
ZUMA-Nachrichten 53, 2003, 96-113.


Edited Volumes

Produktivität in alternden Gesellschaften (Altern in Deutschland Bd. 4)
Axel Börsch-Supan, Marcel Erlinghagen, Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges & Gert Wagner (eds.)
Nova Acta Leopoldina NF Bd. 102, Nr. 366 (2009).


50+ in Deutschland und Europa: Ergebnisse des Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank, Hendrik Jürges & Mathis Schröder (eds.)
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009.

Challenges and Opportunities of Ageing in Europe: Findings from the first two waves of SHARE
Axel Börsch-Supan, Karsten Hank & Hendrik Jürges (eds.)
Special Issue of the Journal of European Social Policy

Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2004-2007): Starting the longitudinal dimension
Axel Börsch-Supan, Agar Brugiavini, Hendrik Jürges, Arie Kapteyn, Johan Mackenbach, Johannes Siegrist & Guglielmo Weber
Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2008

Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe: First results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Axel Börsch-Supan, Agar Brugiavini, Hendrik Jürges, Johan Mackenbach, Johannes Siegrist & Guglielmo Weber
Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2005

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe: Methodology
Axel Börsch-Supan & Hendrik Jürges
Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, 2005


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
Health Economics and Econometrics, University of Mannheim, 2002-2010
Econometrics and Statistics, TU Darmstadt, 2007-2008
Labour and Education Economics, TU Darmstadt, 2008
Health Economics, University of Wuppertal, 2010-
Insurance Economics, University of Wuppertal, 2010-

Other Activities

Referee

Applied Economics
Applied Economics Quarterly (Konjunkturpolitik)
Applied Research in Quality of Life
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Contemporary Economic Policy
Economica
Economic Journal
Economics of Education Review
Economics and Human Biology
Education Economics
Education Finance & Policy
Empirical Economics
Environment & Planning A
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
Medical Care
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, Vancouver 2011
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

Feb 2010-:
Member of Committee on Population Economics; German Economic Association (Bevölkerungsökonomischer Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik)
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