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