In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine whether these superior features of private insurance...

Der Beitrag analysiert die Angebotsseite des Pflegezusatzversicherungsmarktes, indem er die Bepreisung sowie den Umfang von geförderten und ungeförderten Pflegetagegeldversicherungen vergleicht. Grundlage ist dabei ein Pflegemodell, das auf Routinedaten einer gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung...

This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance...

During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy. We show within a Generational Accounting framework how unsustainable the public finances of France,...

The aim of the analysis was to determine whether demand in Germany for antibiotics is driven by prices that drop considerably when generic substitutes become available. A time-series approach was therefore carried out to explore price elasticities of demand for two different classes of...

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of Covid-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

Currently nearly half of people eligible for long‐term care benefits in Germany are receiving informal care by family members. Accounting for the ongoing ageing process of society, an increasing labour participation rate of women and a rising part of old aged living alone, the question is if...

Die Zahl der professionell zu versorgenden Pflegefälle wird sich bis zum Jahr 2050 voraussichtlich um etwa 270 Prozent erhöhen. Diesem Anstieg der Pflegebedürftigen steht ein zu erwartender Rückgang der Erwerbspersonen um etwa 40 Prozent gegenüber. Unter Zugrundelegung eines...

In order to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...

To fight the spread of COVID-19, many countries implemented unprecedented social distancing policies. This is the first paper that uses an event-study approach to examine the effects of the German social distancing policies on (a) individual behavior and (b) the spread of the epidemic. Combining...