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Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany: A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach

Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years away from the Host Country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants...

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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?

Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school characteristics in predicting future labor market performance. We...

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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?

Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in...

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Rogue State Behavior and Markets: The Financial Fallout of North Korean Nuclear Tests

Kollias, Christos; Papadamou, Stephanos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Financial markets react to major political events. The two nuclear tests conducted by North Korea in 2006 and 2009 were a sober confirmation of the nuclear weapon capacity of this state with the concomitant potential security threat this posed for the stability of the greater region. We examine...

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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the … short term. Most interesting is the continued importance of the institution of marriage in determining fertility and in …

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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility?: Evidence from a Structural Model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women. …

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Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …

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A Multilevel Analysis of Child Care and the Transition to Motherhood in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...

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