high risk of COVID-19 mortality who experienced major health shocks during the pandemic, inequality aversion was …We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 - except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …

WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To … weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …