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The Effect of Family Income during Childhood on Later-life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the …

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Early Birds in Day Care: The Social Gradient in Starting Day Care and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Peter, Frauke H.; Schober, Pia S.; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

In recent years, almost all children below school age in Western industrialized countries have some experience of … attending day care institutions. However, the age at which children enter day care and therefore the overall time spent in day … children, one important aspect of non-cognitive skills. Based on the English sample of the Millennium Cohort Study, we analyse …

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Extreme Weather Events and Child Height: Evidence from Mongolia

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

significantly slowed the growth trajectory of exposed children from herding households. This negative effect is still observable … experienced head are better able to protect their children from the negative consequences of the 2009/10 winter shock. There are …

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The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Anti-Diabetics

Duso, Tomaso; Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

We investigate the welfare impact of parallel imports using a large panel data set containing monthly information on sales, ex-factory prices, and further product characteristics for all 700 anti-diabetic drugs sold in Germany between 2004 and 2010. We estimate a two-stage nested logit model of...

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Wettbewerb aller Krankenversicherungen kann Qualität verbessern und Kosten des Gesundheitswesens senken

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Edener, Birgit; Grabka, Markus; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

A draft of a reform towards "socially bounded competition" within the health care system indicates, first of all, that several areas of such an insurance system would have to be regulated by the state. Such a reform is much more complicated than text book models or the proposals of various...

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Optionen der Weiterentwicklung des Risikostrukturausgleichs in der GKV

Breyer, Friedrich; Kifmann, Mathias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

The system of risk equalization payments among German Statutory Sickness Funds is currently under intensive political debate. While some participants claim that the enormous size of the equalization payments are detrimental to effective competition among funds, others argue that there are still...

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Die Einführung der Praxisgebühr und ihre Wirkung auf die Zahl der Arztkontakte und die Kontaktfrequenz: eine empirische Analyse

Grabka, Markus M.; Schreyögg, Jonas; Busse, Reinhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

As part of the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act a co-payment of €10 per quarter for the first contact at a physician's or a dentist's office has been introduced with effect of 1stJanuary 2004. Apart from contributing to the financial consolidation of the Statutory Health Insurance...

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Kassenwechsel in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: welche Rolle spielt der Beitragssatz?

Schwarze, Johannes; Andersen, Hanfried H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

It is currently intensively discussed whether the system of risk structure adjustment (RSA) among German statutory sickness funds should be supplemented by morbidity indicators. It has been showed that employees who change their sickness funds are better risks and thus shift the morbidity...

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Health Insurance Status and Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Services in Germany: New Evidence from Combined District and Individual Level Data

Jürges, Hendrik - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured patients than for...

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