Maarten LINDEBOOM is Professor of Economics at VU University Amsterdam. He studied econometrics at Free University of Amsterdam and graduated in 1986. He received his Ph.D. at Leiden University in 1992. Maarten held positions at Leiden University and at Tilburg University. His research interests are Health and Labor economics, in particular issues related to Health and Work, ,The Determinants of Later Life Mortality. Among others he has published in American Economic Review the Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Demography, Journal of th European Economic Association Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (series A & B) and Journal of Human Resources.