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 …

of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1 … data") in order to disentangle the interplay between individual, societal and regional determinants on individuals' health …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents' health status, their …

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 …

We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health … insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who usually buy private health insurance. Private health insurance …

variability therefore uncovers a mechanism of how perceptions of unfairness can adversely affect cardiovascular health. Wefurther … test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. Complementary to our … experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in particular cardiovascular …

potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. The analysis includes cross … association between health outcomes, in particular cardiovascular health, and the perception of unfair pay. …

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … 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 …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …