variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … their own level of sports activities are tackled by combining informative data and flexible semiparametric estimation … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …

, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in … Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …

Income comparisons have been found to be important for individual health. However, the literature has so far looked … health. Relative deprivation and relative satisfaction indexes are used to summarise upward and downward comparisons. Panel … impact on health. These findings hold after correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and are robust to using quasi …

in Germany. We show that the convergence in health is heterogeneous across immigrants and occurs more rapidly among those …This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival …

This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health, health behavior, and healthcare utilization. Using … wide range of health behaviors (e.g. alcohol and tobacco consumption, physical activity, diet and sleep) as potential … mechanisms. The results show a long-run improvement in health upon retirement. Relief from work-related stress and strain …

, self-reported health, and presence of chronic illness as health measures. After controlling for initial health conditions …